Senior Business Intelligence & Analytical Engineering Leader | 8+ Years

📍 Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 | ✅ Permanent Residence (No visa sponsorship required)
🎯 Building Data Teams & Platforms for High-Growth Companies

• 💰 €24M Payment Infrastructure Redesign - Led data architecture for CFO/CTO-sponsored Payment v2 rebuild at Vestiaire Collective. Architected Kafka event streams, partnered with VP Platform Engineering to deliver first reliable payment data mart in company history
• 🛡️ 80% Fraud Reduction - COO/CTO-sponsored fraud detection project: reverse-engineered legacy pipelines post-team turnover, refactored real-time monitoring, restored institutional knowledge
• ⚡ 50% CS Response Time Improvement - Rebuilt Customer Service data infrastructure from scratch (48→24 hrs), directly contributing to Best Customer Service Award (Italy 2025/2026)
• 🏆 20%+ Authentication Speed Boost - COO-sponsored Quality Control initiative: supervised Snowflake Data API integration for 500K+ active listings

• Built Operations BI squad from 0→3 engineers at Vestiaire Collective; defined team structure with COO/VP Ops
• Pioneered Agile methodology for data teams: reduced backlog turnaround 8→4 weeks via Scrum/MoSCoW prioritization
• Co-founded Data Guild at Delivery Hero (200+ members, 50+ countries, CTO-endorsed)
• Architected greenfield Data Warehouse at Delivery Hero serving 200+ users across 5 AWS regions—blueprint for company's Data Mesh strategy

"Jimmy is one of the rare data leaders who combines deep technical expertise with exceptional stakeholder management. His work on our payment infrastructure was transformational."

— Hugo Almeida, VP Engineering, Vestiaire Collective

• 🎯 Seeking Head of Data / Team Lead roles in Berlin - Open to Series A-C startups (Bolt, Vinted, Gorillas, GetYourGuide, Trade Republic, etc.)
• ✍️ Publishing Data Biz on Substack - Strategic insights for data leaders: jimmypang.substack.com
• 🌭 Building JimWurst - Open-source AI-powered personal DW experimenting with LLM-driven analytics workflows (semantic search over dbt docs, automated data quality alerts, natural language SQL generation)

Data Biz (Substack) - Strategic insights for data leaders

Featured articles:

• Agile for Data Teams - Framework for Scrum/Kanban in analytics workflows (reduced backlog 8→4 weeks)
• P0 Data Asset Classification - Automated criticality detection using dbt Exposures
• The Voice of Data Among C-Level Executives - Strategic positioning for data leaders in executive conversations

• JimWurst - AI-powered personal Data Warehouse for exploring LLM-driven analytics patterns (semantic search over dbt docs, automated data quality alerts, natural language SQL generation)

(Private repositories - available for technical interviews)

• 1700+ dbt Models - Serving 7 business domains (Trust & Safety, Payments, CS, Operations, Sustainability, Transport, Consignment)
• Airflow/Kafka Architecture - Event-driven data platform for real-time fraud detection & payment processing
• Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code - Snowflake data warehouse management & deployment
• Data Quality Framework - Elementary + dbt Exposures for P0 asset monitoring

🔒 Enterprise code sanitized for confidentiality—full architecture documentation available upon request

• Built revenue-critical data infrastructure: €24M payment systems, fraud detection achieving 80% incident reduction
• Scaled teams 0→3: Hired, onboarded, and mentored analytics engineers while pioneering Agile for data workflows
• Cross-domain ownership: 7 simultaneous business domains managed (Fraud, Payments, CS, Ops, Sustainability, Transport, Consignment)
• Executive partnerships: Direct CFO/COO/CTO collaboration on company-critical initiatives
• Data governance at scale: P0 asset prioritization automated via dbt Exposures; led Data Mesh pilot with Amazon 6-pager format

• Modern Data Stack: dbt (4+ yrs), Snowflake (4+ yrs), BigQuery (3 yrs), Airflow (7+ yrs), Terraform
• Event-Driven Architecture: Kafka event streams for real-time fraud detection & payment processing
• BI Platforms: Tableau (7 yrs), Looker (3 yrs), Metabase (3 yrs), Streamlit (4 yrs)
• Data Quality & Observability: Elementary (3 yrs), CastorDoc (4+ yrs), dbt Exposures
• Analytics Engineering: Dimensional Modeling, Data Marts, ETL/ELT, 1700+ production dbt models
• Languages: SQL (Expert), Python

• eCommerce | Luxury Fashion | Food Logistics | Supply Chain | Fraud Detection | Payments | Operations

• 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jimmy-pang-hk603
• ✍️ Substack: jimmypang.substack.com
• 📧 Email: [email protected]
• 🌍 Location: Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
• 🗣️ Languages: English (Fluent), Cantonese (Native), Mandarin Chinese, German (B1)

"Building data platforms that empower people to make better decisions"