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aka agoodtheory
I'm a Senior Business Analyst with a strong SQL background and a passion for data, programming, and building solutions in the cloud. I'm working toward a career transition into data engineering through hands-on project work and formal AWS training. Outside of work I enjoy building things — from serverless data apps to whatever idea lodges itself in my head and won't let me rest until I figure it out — and you'll usually find me hiking or fully locked into gaming.
Projects
A full-stack data engineering project that models how a message would travel across the continental US via dog-owning households, county by county. Built on U.S. Census data, a weighted NetworkX graph, Dijkstra pathfinding, and a serverless AWS backend — with an animated Leaflet.js frontend that visualizes the route in real time.
A private, serverless analytical engine designed for semantic anomaly detection and cross-domain pattern correlation across multi-format data corpuses. Features a compartmentalized security model, automated ingestion syncs, and isolated server-side authorization. The architecture is open. The door is locked.
Skills & Tools
Data
Cloud & Infra
Frontend
Tools
About
The handle agoodtheory has been mine for years — a gaming tag that made its way onto GitHub and eventually into a domain name. It fits: I tend to show up with a theory, test it against reality, and see what survives.
My background is in business analysis, where I've spent years translating data into decisions. I'm now building toward data engineering — combining the analytical foundation I already have with the technical skills to work further upstream in the data pipeline.
When a problem gets interesting enough, I can't let it go. Twilight Bark started as a half-formed idea on a walk and turned into a full-stack data project with a live AWS deployment. That's usually how it goes.
Currently
Senior Business Analyst
Targeting
Data Engineer · Analytics Engineer
Training
AWS (Adrian Cantrill) · Python · Cloud Infrastructure
Outside work
Hiking · Gaming · Building things