Khizar Ali

About

Khizar Ali

Analytics architect · San Jose, CA


I'm an analytics lead architect. I design analytics and BI systems end to end — modeling, storage, retrieval, and the governance that keeps a platform trustworthy a year after launch.

Eighteen years of it, almost entirely inside large enterprises where the data is messy, the stakes are real, and "just rebuild it" was never on the table. That has meant leading onshore and offshore teams, training developers on platforms I had just finished rebuilding, and cutting report load times in half often enough that I now have strong opinions about why they were slow to begin with.

These days that work spans four things I keep coming back to: business intelligence, analytics, data science, and AI. This site is where the parts that don't fit in a résumé bullet end up — the blog for the long explanations, the videos for the ones easier to show than tell.

For the full work history, LinkedIn is the place — that's what it's for.

Where that experience comes from

  • 18 yrsBanking & financial services
    Risk, capital, sales performance, auditing
  • Entertainment & studios
    Residuals and cast reporting
  • E-commerce & retail
    Loyalty, basket analysis, workforce reporting
  • Restaurant groups
    Sales analysis and mobile reporting
  • Insurance
    Claims and branch performance

What I work with

Platforms & tools

  • MicroStrategy
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • R Studio
  • DAX
  • Power Query

Databases

  • Netezza
  • Teradata
  • Oracle
  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • Vertica
  • DB2

Languages

  • Python
  • SQL
  • T-SQL
  • PL/SQL
  • R

Education & certification

  • M.S. Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
    Colorado State University
  • B.S. Accounting & Information Management
    UT Dallas
  • MicroStrategy Certified Analyst

Get in touch

Consulting, speaking, collaborating on a video, or comparing notes on a stubborn data model — I read everything that comes in.

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