Samad Husain
Data Engineer
Samad is a seasoned Data Engineering professional with nearly a decade of experience in building data models, pipelines, and integrated systems to deliver impactful business insights. With expertise in Data Warehousing, Data Architecture and Design, and Data Modeling, Samad brings both technical proficiency and a collaborative spirit to a wide range of data projects, ensuring they are successfully delivered. In recent years, Samad has focused on building data teams for his own company as well as other organizations, guiding them from the ground up in their data journey. Samad holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland and enjoys practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu in his free time.
“Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome.”
- Charlie Munger
Experience
Data Engineering Consultant
Action
July, 2024 → Present
Samad works with the Data Operations team in Environment and Supply Chain Innovation at Apple to build scalable systems for Apple’s responsibility programs.
Co-Founder
Datstra Analytics
January, 2023 → Present
Samad built Datstra Analytics, a boutique data and AI consulting company, to help clients go from 0 —> 1 in their data journey.
Lead Data Engineer
LaunchGood
March, 2021 → June, 2024
Samad was the founding member of LaunchGood’s Data Team. At LaunchGood, he built the company’s data infrastructure, reporting, and analytics from scratch and grew the team to five members to help leverage data-driven insights across all business units for operational and strategic needs.
Data Engineering Consultant
Myers-Holum
March, 2020 → August, 2021
Samad led major migration projects for Enterprise clients to modernize their data stacks from traditional on-premises data warehouses to cloud-native BigQuery and Looker.
Data Engineer
Beacon Street Services
December, 2018 → March, 2020
Samad worked as a Data Engineer at Beacon Street Services on a talented team supporting 8+ business units and brands focusing on growth and retention.
Services
Data Foundation
A strong Data Foundation underpins any successful analytics implementation. Samad is an engineer at heart who helps turn bits and bytes into actionable insights.
Data Analytics Strategy and Execution
Samad helps implement enterprise analytics and scalable data infrastructure at organizations large and small.
Data Literacy and Culture Building
Action’s APTITUDE is an eleven point framework for building a data literate and data-centric organizational culture geared for strategy and analytics deployment at scale.
Education
University of Maryland
B.A. Economics