# Nicholas Williams

**Data Analyst II** — Salt Lake City, UT, United States

> Data professional with 5+ years building governed data products and modernizing analytical environments. Most recently built a dbt and Snowflake foundation with an Omni semantic layer at REMI that standardized definitions and lineage across several departments.

Career Archetype: **All-Terrain Artisan** (HB-MX) — One of the first All-Terrain Artisans on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicholas-williams5

## Experience

### Data Analyst II - Analytics Engineering & Applied AI, REMI (YC W22) (2025-06 – 2026-08)
Lehi, UT · Built a dbt-based semantic layer across Snowflake and Omni, documenting model definitions, lineage, and business meaning. Built or materially improved 50+ dbt models across Finance, pricing, Sales, claims, and Operations, moving repeated dashboard logic into reusable datasets. Designed governed self-service analytics agents used by 40 employees across five departments, reducing inbound data-team requests 22%. Created REMI's first financial snapshots and showed that mutable records were causing historical reporting drift.

### Data Analytics, Lead, MX (2021-04 – 2025-04)
Lehi, UT · Maintained and improved a transaction data engine processing about 130M transactions per day. Led a transaction-location initiative that raised physical-location accuracy from 83% to 91%. Used Python automation to reduce analyst dependence on Engineering.

### Ungraduate Research Asistant, Utah Valley University (2019-09 – 2020-03)
Orem Utah · Working on cancer detection and classification using lasers and ultrasound, coupled with CNN. -Python, Pytorch, Keras, C++

### Co President, UVU Chess Club (2019-08 – 2021-09)

### Software Testing Intern, Aquaveo (2019-05 – 2021-04)
Provo, Utah Area · Recreated production environments and maintained automated tests. Documented defects and gave developers usability and performance recommendations.

## Education

### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Computer Science, Utah Valley University (2018-01 – 2021-06)
Activities and societies: Chess club co-president Computer Science

### Associate's degree in Computer Science, Utah State University (2015-01 – 2018-01)
Computer Science

## Skills

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Financial Analysis, Management, Project Management, Team Management, Computer Science, Transaction Monitoring, Data Quality, OpenSearch, Big Data, C++, Python (Programming Language), Communication, Github, Linux, Microsoft Office, MatLab, C#, Selenium WebDriver, Pandas (Software), Java, advanced SQL, dbt, Snowflake, Omni, dimensional modeling, facts and dimensions, shared measures, semantic layers, financial snapshots, reusable data products, dbt tests, Great Expectations, lineage, metadata, documentation, observability, access controls, CI/CD, code review, release workflows, BigQuery, Vertica, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, scheduled ingestion, architecture leadership, cross-functional design, technical mentorship

## Credentials

- **Learning Java 17** — LinkedIn (issued 2023-11)

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