Ski Systems
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I build automated data systems.

Reporting, pipelines and data models that run without manual rework.

Agatha Pawlikowski · Detroit, Michigan · Available remote

About

I translate between business systems and the people who make decisions with them.

Eight years in analytics, five of them in enterprise operations. M.S. in data science, an actuarial and economics foundation, and ongoing work in applied AI.

How I work

I build things that don’t need to be reverse-engineered

I’ve inherited enough undocumented work to prefer solutions that document themselves. An ETL script you can read top to bottom is documentation. A hundred cross-referencing custom calculations is a problem you hand to the next person.

One governed source, not per-audience copies

Forking a report to satisfy a local requirement is cheap once and expensive forever. Configuration and conditional logic inside a single product instead.

A data product isn’t finished until it tells you when it breaks

Refresh timestamps, row-volume patterns, validation checks. If a stakeholder notices first, the system was incomplete.

Constraints are design inputs

No access to the source I wanted. No license for the easiest tool. No upstream change on my timeline. Each one forced a design I wouldn’t have reached otherwise.

Selected work

Global partner reporting platform

Hundreds of software partners, tracked in spreadsheets and rolled up by hand. I built and ran the platform that replaced it — reporting, business logic, ETL and entitlements — serving partners and internal leadership each at their own scope, for five years.

Tableau · Alteryx · row-level security · Salesforce / SAP / Oracle sources

Customer identity across systems

Customer identifiers disagreed across enterprise systems, and automated reassignment kept moving a revenue metric leadership relied on. I traced the cause, made the case for a cross-system mapping, and built the reporting that pinpointed affected accounts so they could be resolved in batches.

Learning analytics

A legacy Excel process nobody could fully explain. IT moved the platform data into the data lake; I reverse-engineered the existing reporting and built the ETL in Tableau Prep, combining the sources into what became the learning and development team’s primary data source for five years — and the foundation for every L&D dashboard built on it since.

Tableau Prep · Tableau · row-level security

Putting the reporting where people already work

A lending technology company had no BI environment. I stood up their first Tableau environment and embedded the reporting directly into Salesforce, teaching myself the HTML needed to make the embed work.

Tableau · embedded analytics in Salesforce · HTML, self-taught

Graduate coursework

Network design: how many distribution centers, and where

A national retailer, 55,799 SKUs, three years of forecast demand, six candidate distribution centers. Greedy lowest-cost assignment filled 92.6% of demand by volume while leaving 98.6% of customers with an incomplete order. The fix isn’t a better solver, it’s a different objective.

Python · pandas · network design · capacity-constrained allocation

Earlier work

Healthcare compliance reporting

SAS data pulls linking complex claim logic to ICD codes and claim dates, feeding automated claims, audit and compliance reporting.

Current projects

Personal health data

Consolidating Whoop and Strava into one training plan for the Detroit Free Press Half Marathon.

Netflix viewing history

Pulling apart my own watch data to see what’s in it. Early stages.

This site

Built by hand rather than on a platform — DNS, hosting and mail routing included.

Contact

I build automated data systems. Open to full-time roles and project work.

Or write directly to contact@ski.systems
ahpawlikowski@gmail.com