Yasser Hossam Eldeen
Verified Expert in Engineering
Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Toptal member since June 8, 2019
Yasser is a data and business intelligence leader with 14+ years of experience designing data strategies, enterprise data architectures, and analytics solutions for startups, SMEs, Fortune 500 firms, and governments. He is an expert in bridging data and business needs, scaling BI systems, and enabling data-driven decision-making. Yasser has a track record of guiding end-to-end data product lifecycles, delivering measurable business impact, and mentoring teams across industries.
Portfolio
Experience
- Business Intelligence (BI) - 12 years
- SQL - 12 years
- Data Strategy - 10 years
- Data Engineering - 9 years
- Data Visualization - 8 years
- Data Analysis - 8 years
- Data Architecture - 8 years
- Data Science - 5 years
Work Experience
Lead Data Architect
Stratus Data LLC
- Designed and implemented data lakehouses, warehouses, and dashboards for global clients across healthcare, job matching, and investment sectors.
- Led teams to migrate legacy systems and establish scalable BI infrastructure.
- Standardized data architectures and pipelines, enabling consistent self-service analytics.
Data Consultant
Hello Chef
- Defined the data vision, strategy, and architecture from scratch.
- Built centralized data warehouse and marts, integrating 10+ sources—reducing reporting time by 60% and enabling real-time decision-making.
- Established business glossary and metadata management, and trained cross-functional teams.
- Delivered 20+ dashboards improving decision-making across operations, marketing, and finance.
BI, Data Analytics Consultant | Data, LG, and Strategic Research
Yara
- Built and scaled data warehouse, lake, and APIs to support global operations.
- Trained 40+ stakeholders on data visualization best practices via the BI Center of Excellence.
- Defined and tracked organizational OKRs, enabling leadership to monitor impact and optimize strategy.
- Automated 15+ data sources with AWS Glue, Lambda, Terraform, and MSK.
Business Intelligence Architect
Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, USA
- Assessed organizational readiness and defined the full BI and analytics roadmap and technical architecture.
- Gathered stakeholder requirements, built detailed wireframes, and created adoption/change management strategies.
- Designed and implemented a data warehouse and governance framework, integrating multiple data sources.
- Delivered training programs for both business and technical teams in BI best practices and data storytelling.
Head of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
Lanterne Rouge, New Zealand
- Defined and executed the company’s data strategy and BI roadmap.
- Built data warehouse and ETL pipelines integrating 8+ data sources.
- Designed and delivered executive dashboards for clients and internal teams.
- Implemented AI/ML-based personalized recommendations to improve user engagement.
Head of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
Elmenus
- Established BI roadmap, built data warehouse, and ETL pipelines from scratch.
- Developed 30+ dashboards for operations, marketing, finance, and investor relations.
- Created investor-focused insights, instrumental to $8 million Series B fundraising.
- Implemented data governance and metadata management framework.
Independent Data Analytics and Data Performance Management Consultant
Ajman Ministry of Finance, UAE
- Performed pre-sales, awareness, and training activities prior to the main project.
- Gathered and analyzed requirements, discovered the main pain points, and set suitable solutions.
- Created full documentation and user manuals for the whole project.
- Owned the project planning and management, UAT, delivery, after-delivery support, and maintenance.
- Modeled and implemented the planning analytics solution.
- Built IBM TurboIntegrator processes to automate every part of the process.
- Provided training sessions for the team and the end-users.
- Managed the full training and orientation for the development team that was working with me.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Expert
Ministry of Justice - Qatar
- Managed the entire project, from system analysis and design to project delivery.
- Solved IBM Cognos complex problems to satisfy users' needs.
- Modeled the data with IBM Cognos Framework Manager.
- Created a standalone web portal to manage the dashboards' governance to be easy to use.
- Solved many data-related technical challenges facing the technical team in the ministry.
- Created documentation and user manuals for the entire project.
Business Intelligence Developer and Data Analyst
Bizware International
- Worked in more than 20 complete data analysis and visualization mega projects.
- Managed two teams that won two data competitions in the same year.
- Created around 30 POCs for different clients in many industries.
- Provided corporate training courses for big companies like GUPCO, EgyptGas, and AstraZeneca.
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science Specialization
Cairo University - Cairo, Egypt
Certifications
Predictive Analytics for Business Nanodegree
Udacity
Data Engineering Nanodegree
Udacity
Data Analyst Nanodegree
Udacity
Expert Systems and Knowledge Engineering Certificate
The Agricultural Research Center, Egypt
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Google Chart API, Chart.js, D3.js, Matplotlib, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, API Development, REST APIs
Tools
Cognos Analytics 11, Cognos Framework Manager, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, Cognos ReportNet, TM1, IPython Notebook, Seaborn, Git, Jupyter, n8n, SSAS, Microsoft Project, Chartio, Google Analytics, Talend ETL, IBM Planning Analytics, AWS Glue, Terraform, Mailchimp, Grafana, Amazon QuickSight, BigQuery
Languages
SQL, Python, R, PHP 7, JavaScript, PHP, C#, Java, Snowflake
Frameworks
Flourish, Data Fabric
Paradigms
Database Design, Business Intelligence (BI), Database Development, Automation, ETL, Requirements Analysis
Platforms
Jupyter Notebook, Alteryx, Anaconda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows, Ubuntu, Oracle, Azure, RudderStack, Docker, Mixpanel
Storage
Databases, Database Modeling, MySQL, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, PL/SQL, SQL Server 2005, Data Integration, Redshift, Redis, Google Cloud
Industry Expertise
Project Management
Other
Data Architecture, Big Data Architecture, Data Analysis, Cognos 10, Data Visualization, Visual Storytelling, Data Modeling, Data Analytics, Complex Data Analysis, Data Strategy, Business Intelligence Training, Business Intelligence Architecture, Microsoft Business Intelligence (MBI), Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Warehouse Design, Data Science, Cloud, IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded, Google Data Studio, A/B Testing, Algorithms, Data Structures, Predictive Analytics, Predictive Modeling, Data Wrangling, Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Data Mining, RESTFul APIs, Financial Engineering, Analytics, Data, Strategy, Roadmaps, Product Management, Mathematics, Algebra, Training, Metadata, Data Governance, Tableau Server, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Data Management, Budgeting, Employee Training, Planning, Amplitude, Data Build Tool (dbt), Reporting, Dashboards, Fivetran
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