Business Intelligence Engineer · Seattle

Hi, I’m Fani.

I build analytics products that turn messy, real-world data into clear decisions—dashboards people trust, and pipelines that don’t break when things change.

BI & Dashboards SQL & Warehousing ETL & Automation
Faniel Habte

What I focus on

  • Simple, self-serve metrics for busy stakeholders
  • Reliable data models + clear definitions
  • Automation that saves time without hiding the truth

My story

A quick snapshot of how I think, what I enjoy, and why I’m in this work.

How I got here

I started in operations and bookkeeping, where I learned that clarity matters—when numbers are messy, everything slows down. That pushed me toward analytics: building systems that keep teams aligned and decisions grounded.

Today, I’m focused on analytics engineering and data engineering—strong definitions, dependable pipelines, and stakeholder-ready storytelling.

Outside work

When I’m not building dashboards, I’m usually learning guitar, traveling, or chasing a new skill that makes me better at building products.

Guitar Travel Learning

Career timeline

A narrative timeline (high-level) — the detailed bullets live in my resume.

2024 — Present Work

Business Intelligence Engineer · Amazon

Building analytics and reporting experiences for sustainability initiatives—bringing together data pipelines, clear metric definitions, and dashboards built for leadership decisions.

2025 — 2028 Education

B.S. Software Engineering · WGU

Building deeper software fundamentals (data structures, systems design) to complement my analytics and data engineering work.

2023 — 2024 Work

Business Analyst Intern · Amazon

Worked across product and analytics to make customer sentiment and engagement easier to measure—modernizing dashboards and strengthening the data behind them.

2023 — 2024 Education

Year Up · Seattle Central College

Intensive training across software development, testing, and professional skills—helped me bridge into analytics roles.

2022 — 2023 Work

Bookkeeper & Operations · Palma Trucking

Learned the operational side of data: reconciling numbers, tightening processes, and communicating clearly under pressure.

Skills

Core strengths and what I'm sharpening now: clear definitions, strong models, honest automation, and collaborative communication.

Analytics & BI

QuickSight Tableau Excel KPI design Executive reporting Stakeholder storytelling

Data engineering

Data modeling AWS S3 Glue Redshift ETL APIs Data quality

Programming

SQL Python

Learning

PySpark Testing & reliability Data contracts LLM + analytics workflows System design

Personal projects

Real builds that show how I think. Each one includes what I build, what I learned, and what I’d do next.

Weekly Streak Lab

Weekly

Small, consistent weekly builds to keep my data engineering skills sharp—clean → model → validate → ship.

Update cadence: Weekly Goal: Weekly builds Themes: cleanup · APIs · modeling · tests
View weekly sessions

World Prosperity Dashboard

Completed

A reproducible pipeline that turns raw geopolitical indicators into curated tables and narrative insights for trend and driver analysis.

  • Raw → curated transforms with snapshotting
  • Schema-first JSON outputs for insight generation
  • Logging + data-quality checks (outliers, missingness)
Python Pandas SQL Data modeling Logging Data quality

Seattle Clean Energy Playbooks

Ongoing

An end-to-end exploration of Seattle’s clean energy transition using public datasets—cleaning, modeling, and visual storytelling to surface trends and drivers.

  • Data quality checks across ingest and curated layers
  • Generation mix and emissions trend breakdowns
  • Regional comparisons with anomaly flags
Python Pandas Open data Visualization Storytelling

Social Stream

In progress

A small-but-real pipeline that ingests JSON, cleans it, standardizes schema, and publishes curated tables for analysis.

  • Idempotent runs + snapshotting
  • Schema-aware transformations
  • Basic logging + error handling patterns
Python Pandas JSON Data modeling

Feedback Analyzer (Redshift ML + Bedrock)

Drafted

A text-to-insights workflow that extracts sentiment and action items from feedback and returns structured JSON for downstream reporting.

  • Prompting for deterministic structure
  • Confidence scoring patterns
  • Evaluation ideas (sampling + QA checks)
Redshift SQL Bedrock LLM

Contact

Let’s connect — I respond fastest by email.

Collaboration summary

Open to thoughtful collaboration, feedback, and knowledge sharing across analytics, BI, and data engineering.