Fractional Data Engineer

Client Case Studies

Real projects. Real results. No full-time hire required.

Who We Work With

We work with SaaS and tech-enabled companies — typically 10 to 200 people, post-Series A or profitable bootstrapped — that have one data person in-house but no senior data engineer owning the architecture.

They have data. They have a stack. What they don't have is someone experienced enough to build it right — without the cost or commitment of a full-time senior hire. That's where we come in.

Case Study 01

Building a Scalable Data Foundation Before the Mess Gets Worse

Health tech company · ~50-150 employees · One analyst, zero data infrastructure

0 → 1

Data stack built from scratch

100%

Data sources documented

Future-proof

Architecture ready to scale

Tech: dbt · PostgreSQL · Data Architecture · Documentation · Data Governance · Team Training

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Case Study 02

Turning a Metabase Tool Nobody Used into a Self-Serve Analytics Culture

Health tech company · Growing team · Analyst buried in repetitive report requests

3

Workshop sessions delivered

Self-serve

Analytics culture built

↓ 80%

Ad-hoc report requests

Tech: Metabase · Workshop Design · Analytics Training · Self-Serve Analytics

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Case Study 03

Taming Big-Data Event Tracking Pipelines for a Fast-Growing SaaS

SaaS / Co-working platform · ~151 employees · Funded · $10M revenue

Real-time

Usage pattern recognition

Scalable

Pipeline Architecture

Multi-source

Data ingestion

Tech: AWS SQS · AWS SNS · AWS Lambda · AWS Glue · PostgreSQL · Python · Twilio · Segment · Mini-Batch

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Case Study 04

Replacing a Legacy ETL Tool with a Cloud Data Warehouse — Without Breaking the Budget

SaaS / Co-working platform · ~151 employees · Funded · $10M revenue

1

Centralized data warehouse

Multi-source

All stakeholder data unified

Cost-effective

Cloud-native, no license fees

Tech: Apache Airflow · AWS Lambda · AWS S3 · PostgreSQL · Python · SQL · GitHub

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Case Study 05

Cost-Effective Data Lakehouse for a $78M Nonprofit — $12K/Year

Nonprofit · 221 employees · $78.5M revenue · No prior data infrastructure

$12K/yr

Total infrastructure cost

Maintainable

Pipelines post-handoff

Full DataOps

CI/CD + versioning

Tech: Apache Airflow · AWS Glue · Amazon Athena · AWS S3 · Apache Iceberg · Python · SQL · Terraform · GitHub Actions

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