Your data, ready for decisions and AI.

I help businesses turn messy operational data into trustworthy dashboards, clean pipelines, and AI-ready datasets. Ex-Looker (Google Cloud), ex-Firebolt, and former startup CTO. Now consulting independently for teams who need senior data help without the overhead.

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What I help with

Looker & LookML

Semantic modeling, governed self-service, attribution, cohorts, funnels, and rescuing instances that have drifted off the rails.

Databases & Warehousing

BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres, Firebolt. Schema design, performance tuning, cost control, and migrations done without downtime.

ETL & Pipelines

Reliable ingestion from product, CRM, ads, and support tools. dbt, Python, and event collection that your team can actually maintain.

Data Prep for AI

Cleaning, structuring, and labeling datasets for RAG, fine-tuning, and analytics agents. Built so your AI features stop hallucinating.

Why work with Des

A decade across IBM, Looker (Google Cloud), Firebolt, and as co-founder/CTO of a venture-backed marketplace. I've sat on every side of the table: vendor, operator, founder. I build for what actually ships.

#1 Worldwide Customer Engineer
Looker / Google Cloud
Built Customer Success from Scratch
Firebolt, $1.4B data warehouse
Co-founder & CTO
Fixed: UK's largest construction recruitment marketplace, backed by Plug & Play, Octopus, Axel Springer

How engagements work

Free consultation

Message me. 30-min call to understand the goal and what's in the way.

Scoped proposal

Fixed-scope sprint or ongoing fractional engagement. Clear deliverables, no surprises.

Ship & hand over

Remote-first across Europe, on-site when it helps. Your team owns it after.

Let's get your data in shape.

Based in the EU, available across Europe and happy to travel on-site for the right engagement. Typical reply within 6 hours.

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