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I primarily work with Python, SQL (Snowflake), dbt and Tableau. In the past, I also used PowerBI and Excel VBA. I am interested in business analytics and automation, but I am also interested in business operations processes. I like to think of myself as the connection between analytics teams and executives/commercial teams/customer-facing teams. I enjoy being a skilled programmer, who can consistently develop new business solutions for the top business initiatives, including complex data modeling, automation, BI and data visualization.

I find that when you build fully automated solutions that utilize Python, SQL, dbt and Tableau together (or PowerBI/another data visualization tool), you can have fun and do some pretty amazing things that can get people excited about new processes, data and even work itself! Through innovation, I love how I can have such a positive influence on the business and inspire people from various departments in various roles. Changing from the Excel world and VBA to investing all my focus into SQL/dbt/Python/Tableau has been transformative. I would encourage anyone getting into programming to keep going and really push yourself to get a level where you can start to use your new skills practically at work. Then, believe it or not, programming might actually start to become a hobby :)