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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.

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What Our Clients Say

“Samad delivers scalable, user-focused data products and solves complex problems with composure and empathy.” Anthony Zic, Manager of Analytics Platform at Dotdash Meredith
“Samad transforms complex data into clear, actionable insights and quickly masters new technologies.” Debashis Das, Principal Enterprise Data Engineer at Talend
“Samad led our BI migration to Looker and GCP, driving smooth adoption, alignment, and collaboration across teams.” Kevin Castillos, Machine Learning Engineer at Tryolabs

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

Skills

  • Analytics Engineering

  • SQL

  • dbt

  • Data Modeling

  • Data Architecture

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“Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome.”
- Charlie Munger

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