Data & Security Analytics Consultant

Data Analyst | Machine Learning Practitioner | SOC Analyst

I help organizations make sense of their data and defend the systems that produce it by building the dashboards, models, and monitoring workflows that turn raw information into decisions people can act on with confidence.

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About

Professional summary

I work at the intersection of analytics and security operations. I've learnt and built reporting pipelines for retail and finance teams, modeled churn and credit risk, and spent time on the monitoring side triaging alerts and correlating logs for security operations center. That combination shapes how I approach a new dataset, I want to know not just what the numbers show, but how the system producing them could fail or be misused.

Most of my work lives in SQL and Python, with Power BI or Tableau for the reporting layer. I've spent time inside SIEM tooling as well, which has made me more careful about data lineage and access than I might otherwise be. I like projects with a clear business question attached, a churn number a retention team can act on, a risk score a lender can defend, an alert threshold a SOC team can actually live with.

Selected work

Projects

Organized by industry. Each project reflects a real business question, the constraints around the data, and what was delivered at the end.

Credit Risk & Loan Default Analysis

Built a scoring model to flag loan applications with elevated default risk before approval.

Business problem

The lending team was approving loans on limited historical context, resulting in an unpredictable default rate quarter to quarter.

Tools

Deliverables

  • Risk scoring model
  • Interactive Web App
  • Report and Recommendations

Transaction Anomaly Review

Reviewed transaction logs to identify unusual patterns worth escalating to the fraud team.

Business problem

Manual review of flagged transactions was falling behind volume, and thresholds hadn't been revisited in over a year.

Tools

  • SQL
  • Python

Deliverables

  • Anomaly rules
  • Summary report