Wells Fargo

Data Science Consultant, GenAI and LLMs

Flute and Feather

Interactive GenAI, ed-tech platform for young children to learn and have fun:

flutenfeather.com

Co-Founder & CTO

Data Dam

• Offer custom analytics, informatics and data science services with a core focus on Customer Experience AI. Present and past clients include:

- Diversigen
- Loop Genomics
- Black Onyx Management
- Oplytix
- Infinity Systems
- FEI

• Previously, led product and business development efforts of an AI-powered, question-answering platform using large language models (LLMs).
Identified and developed several use cases in biotech, pharmaceutical, finance and CPG industries.

Co-Founder

1865 Analytics

Sabanto

Brief stint exploring some projects related to analyzing bag files, image segmentation, and tractor route planning calculations.

Lead Data Scientist

Microsoft

Worked on NLP and CV projects to support Flip(grid): an ed-tech product empowering millions of learners across the globe.

Senior Applied Scientist Manager

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Analyzed gene variant and clinical data from Genomics England Database to inform rare disease strategy.

Bioinformatician

Near Wellness LLC

Started and sold a dropshipping e-commerce business. Learned everything about digital marketing, Shopify, and online sales—only to realize that making money in e-commerce is way harder than it looks. Didn’t make much, but walked away with a crash course in running a business.

Founder

Eaton

Built data science models and analytics tools to help optimize commercial operations.

Data Scientist, Business Analytics

Genentech

Worked in the RnD department to support bioinformatics and computational biology projects related to biomarker development.
Worked in Marketing Science department to support commercial analytics operations.

Bioinformatics/Data Science Roles

AI, engineering, data science, and cloud infrastructure experience in biotech, manufacturing, software and banking industry. Always up for a new adventure. Hit me up at: 

ali[dot]faruqi[at]datadam[dot]io

Ali A. Faruqi

Qvest US

Qvest is a technology and business consulting firm that specializes in media, entertainment, consumer packaged goods and retail. Their Data & Analytics practice, the one I joined, focuses on enabling data-driven decision-making by supporting and optimizing data management, governance, and ingestion, and building cloud-based analytics platforms with modern data visualization tools.

Consultant Data & Analytics

topmate.io

Breaking into data analytics is hard. That’s where I come in.

I’ve landed roles on finance, entertainment, consulting, compensation, media & entertainment, and healthcare analytics teams—and I want to help you do the same! Whether you are starting out or have a few years of experience, I’d be happy to support you along your journey to land and grow your analytics career. 

As a career consultant on Topmate, I’ve helped people with:

🔍 Expanding their job searches
✍🏾 Improving their resume and LinkedIn materials
📈 Providing career trajectory coaching and planning
🗣️ Discussing networking strategies 
💼 Teaching candidates how to do compensation research, including subjects like salary benchmarks, bonuses, raises, severance packages, and negotiation strategies

If you’re feeling stuck, underpaid, or unsure about your next step in data analytics—let’s talk. You don’t have to figure it out alone and I’d be happy to help.

Data Analytics Career Coach

BlueLabs

As a Senior Data Analyst on the Civic Tech team at BlueLabs - we helped our government clients improve their IT systems to support their work helping the U.S. public. My primary client was the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services over the course of three distinct project assignments . At a high level, I helped Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries and the people who serve them get better data.

Project Experience
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Developed synthetic models and dictionaries using dbt, SQL, VS Code, and Github to validate pipeline logic updates.

Tuned SQL pipelines for continuous reporting on large dataset (11B+ rows) of diabetes prevention claims data.

Wrote QA SQL scripts and published reports to ensure data accuracy in AWS S3-to-Redshift ETL pipeline.

Improved AWS Glue (Python) jobs that joined disparateS3 files organized by geography; monitored via CloudWatch.

Extracted contact data for 13M+ CMS beneficiaries using SQL to support outreach campaigns.

Analyzed demographic shifts across Medicare Diabetes campaigns using Python-based EDA.

Presented year-over-year segmentation changes and pipeline improvements to non-technical audiences.

Investigated CMS data mismatches via Redshift SQL, achieving ~95% alignment or flagging key blockers.

Assessed relevance of five public datasets (e.g., NHIS, BRFSS, SNAP) to strengthen system inputs.

Gained experience working as a civic tech consultant for  federal agency - Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Senior Data Analyst

Netflix

I supported the global compensation team at Netflix, reporting to Compensation Partners for Product and collaborating with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders to deliver analytics that informed compensation decisions for 4,000+ technical professionals. My work helped operationalize the company’s philosophy of paying employees their “personal top of market,” which required synthesizing competitive external survey data and internal job architecture to price roles accurately and equitably.

Project Experience
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Built Review Analytics Dashboard (RAD), a 75-variable Workday linked report in Excel, delivering compensation review insights to HR Business Partners, Finance, and the Head of Global compensation across 10.6K+ employees.

Consolidated and cleaned HR data for 10.6K+ employees across 5+ business units to ensure integrity and consistency.

Resolved 265 data discrepancies during Workday migration by validating job mapping, leveling, and comp ranges.

Audited job titles and Fair Labor Standards Act exemption status to align with legal standards and market norms, reducing compliance risk.

Identified 940 potential race/gender pay disparities via Syndio; supported my manager with driving subsequent corrective actions with HRBPs and business leaders.

Compensation Analyst

Slalom

The FP&A team I worked on analyzed disparate datasets to surface addressable market related insights to C-suite and executive leadership. Our research answered 3 market sizing questions:
1. Who can we do business with?
2. Where are our prospective clients?
3. How much business can we do with each client in each place?

Project Experience
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Delivered addressable market insights on 117K companies across 100+ countries and 15+ languages to 40+ leaders by analyzing 20+ datasets on public & private companies, government agencies, universities, and nonprofits.

Wrote Python ETL to obtain JSON data from Mexican government API, adding 3K rows of college enrollment data.

Automated Excel-based QA for 12.1K entities, saving ~605 analyst hours.

Maintained Power BI/Excel dashboards used ~1K times over 90 days to visualize revenue by market for executives.

Served as SQL SME during BI model migration to Power BI Data Mart and Snowflake.

Authored internal workflow and technical docs on obtaining population, education, and geo data for 22 countries.

Created internal guides on Excel, Power BI, and Snowflake to support analyst onboarding and cross-training.

FP&A Data Analyst

Trilogy Education Services, a 2U, Inc. brand, is a Workforce Accelerator that partners with the world's leading universities to help companies bridge the digital skills gap. As a tutor, I advised students depending on their availability, skills, and current bootcamp course offerings.

Project Experience
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Tutored 38 students over 84 sessions across 6 time zones on analytics best practices including Python (Pandas, Matplotlib), APIs, SQLAlchemy, git/GitHub, Command Line, and Anaconda.

Financial Technology Tutor

Blend

The FP&A team that I worked on collaborated across Finance and Product teams to build actionable and dynamic forecasts.

Project Experience
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Maintained the forecast, prepared monthly financial reporting, and conducted ad hoc analyses for the firm's Consumer Banking and Home Equity product lines including reports for PMs, Engineers, and Sales leadership.

Delivered a predictive modeling dashboard to forecast revenue impacting milestones of strategic clients; refactored SQL reporting script to automate funded loan analysis using a daily refreshed, weighted, and moving average.

FP&A Analyst

Ares Management Corporation

Ares Management Company [NYSE: ARES] is a multinational leading global alternative asset manager that has the ability to invest in all levels of a company’s capital structure—from senior debt to common equity. The Operations team I worked on serviced loans fixed income products traded by our front office.

Project Experience
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Researched and resolved ledger discrepancies with Excel and Power BI totaling $125M in cash breaks and $500K in position breaks; coordinated corrections between external partners, their systems, and internal systems.

Asset Servicing Analyst

Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs [NYSE: GS] is a U.S. multinational finance company that specializes in global investment banking, investment management, securities, and other financial services - now including G.S. Bank. I worked in the operations divisions supporting the loans team with payments and trades coming from clients domestically and internationally.

Project Experience
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Settled 5K+ trades totaling ~$4B across five product types for 1.9K+ lending clients.

Designed Excel dashboards to track trade volume, surface errors and bottlenecks, and guide daily work allocation.

Spearheaded movement of middle office trade settlement to agency team from a junior role; supported management over 4 project handovers, 1 new team member, and 2 system implementations.
 
Managed competing priorities for immediate team, Engineers, Sales Desk, broader Middle Office, London Middle Office, and clients.

Middle Office Analyst

Project Experience
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Managed a portfolio of Syndicated Loans where Goldman Sachs acted as the administrative agent on bank loans

Managed and reconciled cash transactions to company client accounts and between lenders

Developed unique personal tracker in Excel to manage portfolio and communicate nuances to manager in monthly syncs

Analyst - Corporate Loan Agency Servicing

Pomona College

Economic Department Liaison

The Office of Black Student Affairs (OBSA) is a cultural center and service unit within The Claremont Colleges Services (TCCS). On behalf of TCCS, OBSA is dedicated to providing support, resources and space for students of African descent to feel safe, valued, informed and connected.

Project Experience 
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Co-organized inter and intra-state trips with 15 plus students volunteers, managed a budget of +$10k, and liaised with community partners.

Initiated Facebook group for black alum, students and admin; grew group to +500 in two years.

Lead the editing and advertisement of the office’s mentor application; managed candidate funnel of 180+ potential mentors and onboarded +40 student mentors.

Improved the office’s approach to record keeping and programming; +10/15 events recorded in first year.

Co-hosted a spoken word poetry night; 25+ students attended.

Student Manager for the Mentorship Program of OBSA

Project Experience 
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Supported research by Professor Fernando Lozano using linear regression in Stata and large dataset (108M observations) from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) to measure the long-run success prospects of the five largest immigrant groups in South Africa based on the first version of the model built with US data.

Economics Research Assistant

Compensation Analyst @ Netflix 💲👀💲| Data Fellow @ Bluebonnet | Strategic Finance | Tackling novel, complex, and time sensitive problems at scale with data!

Senior Data Analyst who is engineering-minded with a bias towards action, and delivering results quickly by focusing on iteration instead of waiting for perfection. Has experience working in the finance, tech, consulting, entertainment, compensation, and healthcare industries to address complex, novel, and time sensitive problems with data.

I’m working remotely full time as a Data & Analytics Consultant at Qvest where we help our media and entertainment clients with their tech and strategy needs. Qvest is a technology and business consulting firm that specializes in media, entertainment, consumer packaged goods and retail.
 
Here are some examples of my impact throughout my career:

- Managed strategic growth oriented data products and reports for executives and senior leadership in +40 markets in the U.S. and internationally.
- Tutored 40 junior analytics professionals across 6 time zones in 84 1-on-1 virtual tutorials.
- Strong technical skills in manipulating large and sensitive data sets with complex SQL, Python, Snowflake, AWS, Power BI, and Excel/Google Sheets
- Standardized data across 3 file types and 15 languages including Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Spanish.

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I have worked in the following industries/on the following teams:
   • analytics
   • consulting
   • compensation
   • financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
   • fintech / SaaS
   • healthcare

This is my toolkit:
   • Programming & Query Languages: Python (Pandas, Numpy, Plotly, Seaborn), R (ggplot, tidyr), SQL
   • Data Visualization & Reporting: Excel (Power Query), Google Sheets, Power BI, Tableau, Mode
   • Data Warehousing & ETL: Snowflake, Amazon S3, Google BigQuery, Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, Github
   • Data Analysis & Processing: Alteryx, HEX
   • Collaboration & Project Management: Lucid Charts, Jira, Asana, Github
   • HR & Compensation: Workday (HRIS), Syndio
   • Miscellaneous: Salesforce, Stata

Graduated from Pomona College in 2018 with a B.A. in both Economics and Africana Studies.

I am working remotely from sunny southern California. I am a transplant though. I'm originally from New Jersey and proud of it.

Job Titles of Interest: Senior Data Analyst, Compensation Analyst

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