
Nihal Kazi
I turn Data Noise into Rapid Decisions for Operati
Salary / Daily rate
Wexford, Ireland
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
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About me
Intro
Most mid-market organizations don’t have a data problem. They have a decision problem. The data exists. The pipelines are built. Your teams are incredibly busy. Yet, every single morning briefing, your leadership team still struggles to answer a fundamental question with total confidence: What should we do next? Instead, executive meetings regularly derail into a 20-minute debate over whose spreadsheet has the "correct" version of reality. Having led company-wide reporting overhauls within the fast-paced European logistics sector, I understand both sides of this coin. I bridge the gap between the complex technical realities of Azure/SQL data warehouses and how decisions are actually engineered in corporate boardrooms. At Nokta Analytics, we untie asset-heavy operations (Logistics, Manufacturing, and Distribution) from reporting chaos and "report sprawl" through four productized frameworks: 🛠️ 1. The 2-Week Decision Readiness Audit: A rapid strategic diagnostic mapping your top recurring executive decisions against your data gaps to hand you a clear cleanup roadmap. ⚖️ 2. KPI Alignment & Governance: Forcing inter-departmental consensus to lock down metric formulas once and for all, building a central Data Dictionary, and designing clear, 5-second health dashboards. ⚙️ 3. Decision Workflow Enablement: Full-stack backend engineering of automated data pipelines so your production reports refresh smoothly every morning without manual intervention. 👔 4. Fractional Head of Data: Ongoing strategic oversight to manage your internal analysts, filter ad-hoc spreadsheet requests, and protect your cloud architecture from clutter. If you are ready to stop building redundant charts and start driving true corporate clarity, let's connect. 📩 Want to align your data stack this quarter? DM me the word "STRATEGY" or grab a slot directly on my calendar: https://tinyurl.com/nokta-call
Work experience
Principal Analytics Advisor & Founder
Nokta Analytics
Jan 2026 - Present
10 months
Wexford, Ireland
As Principal Analytics Advisor, I help mid-market B2B organizations establish a single source of truth for executive decision-making. By eliminating reporting fragmentation, aligning KPI definitions, and modernizing analytics infrastructure, I enable leadership teams to make faster, more confident decisions with trusted data. My core delivery frameworks include: • Decision Readiness Audits : Identifying reporting inefficiencies, metric inconsistencies, and data bottlenecks. • KPI Governance & Alignment : Creating standardized metric definitions and a shared understanding of business performance. • Executive Decision Enablement : Designing Azure, SQL, and Power BI solutions that deliver reliable, actionable insights. • Fractional Analytics Leadership : Providing strategic oversight for analytics initiatives, data teams, and reporting modernization. Specializing in operational, logistics, and service-based organizations where reporting complexity has outgrown decision-making effectiveness.
Sovereign Speed
Dec 2022 - Jan 2026
3 years 2 months
Senior Data Analytics Manager
Jun 2025 - Jan 2026
8 months
• Full ownership of company-wide data analytics and reporting initiatives, driving strategic direction and architectural improvements. • Leading the redesign and rebuilding of the reporting architecture and Power BI landscape, leveraging an Azure-based data warehouse to deliver scalable, automated dashboards. • Defining KPIs, optimizing reporting structures, and enhancing data quality and accessibility to enable data-driven decision-making. • Replacing manual Excel workflows with dynamic, automated reports for regional and team leads, transitioning from live database queries to secure and scalable solutions.
IT Project Manager
Dec 2022 - May 2025
2 years 6 months
Hamburg, Germany
• Acted as Product Owner for the in-house Transport Management System, overseeing development and guiding strategic enhancements. • Collaborated with internal stakeholders and external partners to deliver system improvements aligned with operational, legal, and sustainability requirements. • Managed stakeholder engagement and change management, prioritizing and delivering iterative improvements that enhanced milestone tracking, reporting reliability, and business transparency.
Tutor in Programming in R
TU Dortmund University
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
6 months
44 Dortmund, Germany
• Supported students in R programming, enabling practical data analysis skills and fostering understanding of statistical methods.
Education
TU Dortmund University
Master of Science - MS
2020 - 2022
2 years 1 month
Thesis: Comparison of western diets with and without trans fats in mice based on gene expression data.
TU Dortmund University
Bachelor of Science - BS
2017 - 2020
3 years 1 month
Thesis: Depression classification using omics data and machine learning methods
Licenses & certifications
Power BI: A Deep Dive into the Tool for Data Visualization
Issued: Jul 2023