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Fractional Data Engineer

Client Case Studies

Real companies. Real problems. Here's how we solved them.

Who We Work With

Most of our clients come to us at the same point: the company is growing, data lives in too many places, and the person who's been holding it all together can't keep up anymore. They don't need a $300K full-time hire — they need someone who's done this before and can get it right the first time.

We work with companies between 10 and 200 people who are at exactly that moment.

Case Study 01

Building a dbt Data Foundation from Scratch: A Case Study for Startups Without a Data Team

Health tech · ~50 employees · No data person, just a CEO, AI, and a lot of manual checks. Now 12 people rely on the same infrastructure.

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dbt data foundation built from scratch

10 hrs/week

given back to the CEO by eliminating manual data validation

Automated

data quality checks running continuously

Tech: dbt · dbt Cloud (free tier) · PostgreSQL · Data Modelling · dbt Tests · Calculated Columns · dbt Documentation

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Case Study 02

Building a Self-Serve Analytics Culture with Metabase: A Case Study for Startups Without a Data Team

Health tech · ~50 employees · 11 non-technical users now making decisions from data, without asking anyone for help

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Metabase built and adopted from scratch

11

non-technical users actively using self-serve analytics

4 departments

onboarded: marketing, sales, operations, C-level

Tech: Metabase · Metabase (basic plan) · dbt · PostgreSQL · Workshop Design · Notion · Data Governance · Self-Serve Analytics

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Case Study 03

Building an AWS Event Tracking Pipeline from Scratch: A SaaS Case Study

Flexible office marketplace SaaS · ~150 employees · Fast-growing, investment-backed · Full Pentaho to AWS migration

2 weeks

to get the pipeline live

5,000+ events/day

processed through the pipeline

Pentaho to AWS

legacy infrastructure modernised

Tech: AWS Lambda · AWS S3 · AWS Glue · PostgreSQL · Segment.io · Data Modelling · Data Partitioning · Cloud Infrastructure

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Case Study 04

Replacing a Legacy ETL Tool with AWS: A SaaS Migration Case Study

Flexible office marketplace SaaS · ~150 employees · Fast-growing, investment-backed · Full Pentaho to AWS migration

6 months

to fully replace Pentaho with a modern AWS stack

4 sources integrated

PostgreSQL, Pipefy, HubSpot, Segment.io

30+ pipelines

running in Airflow

Tech: Apache Airflow · AWS Lambda · AWS S3 · PostgreSQL · Pipefy · HubSpot · Segment.io · Python · SQL · Parquet · Data Modelling

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Case Study 05

Building a Data Lakehouse from Scratch on AWS: A Case Study for Complex Organizations

Multinational organization · ~500 employees · $32M revenue · No prior data infrastructure

40% under budget

data platform delivered

130+ pipelines

running in Airflow across all sources

72 hours

from development to production for new pipelines

Tech: Apache Spark · Apache Airflow · Apache Iceberg · AWS · Terraform · Docker · PostgreSQL · Salesforce · Freshdesk · Google Analytics · Metabase · Python · SQL

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