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Field notes & recent work.
The same thinking I bring to paid engagements, in the open — write-ups on real platform work. Published as engagements allow, always anonymized where it matters.
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Power BI performance turnaround for a Fortune 500 enterprise — and the $10K/month Azure fix that followed
How a stalled Power BI semantic model got rebuilt from scratch in a week — and what that led to: an Azure Analysis Services tier right-sized from ~$26K/month down to ~$10K, with no drop in performance.
#power-bi#case-study#cost-optimization#azure-analysis-services - Write-up
Turning a one-off BI build into a product banks could deploy in under an hour
How a custom BI platform for banking clients became a modular, productized offering — new deployments fully configured in under an hour, sold as ready-to-ship add-ons instead of rebuilt from scratch each time.
#power-bi#azure#case-study#product - Write-up
Building AI-agentic code review into a Fortune 500 Europe data platform
How a Python framework running GPT-5-mini via Copilot CLI reviews production code at minimal per-review cost — citing the exact rule behind every comment, letting developers challenge its findings, and never repeating itself.
#ai#mcp#case-study#architecture - Write-up
Modernizing a Fortune 500 Europe data platform — and cutting cloud spend by $10K+/month
Architecting and modernizing a large enterprise data platform on Snowflake, Databricks, and Azure — and the infrastructure and dbt optimizations that cut cloud spend by $10K+/month.
#case-study#snowflake#databricks#azure#cost-optimization - Write-up
Automating Power BI deployments for a Fortune 500 enterprise
How a manual, error-prone Power BI release process became a version-controlled CI/CD pipeline — built with PowerShell, the Power BI REST API, and Azure DevOps.
#azure-devops#power-bi#ci-cd#case-study
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