Afaan Naqvi

Afaan Naqvi is a Senior Data Analyst and Business Intelligence Engineer with 4.5 years of experience in big data analytics. He transitioned into tech after a decade of leading and managing computation-heavy energy and sustainability projects in the built environment sector, specializing in district system simulation, technical analysis, and business case development.

Afaan is passionate about collaborating closely with stakeholders to address their data challenges and leveraging operational data sets to enable businesses to make informed, data-driven decisions. He is dedicated to continuous learning and growth in the realms of data analytics, data science, and data engineering.

A licensed Mechanical Engineer in California, Afaan holds certifications as a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and a LEED Accredited Professional (AP). His technical skills include Python, SQL (Redshift, Snowflake, Big Query), Tableau, Google Apps Scripts, git, JavaScript, and Airflow, alongside proficiency in data libraries such as Pandas, Seaborn, MatplotLib, NumPy, Bokeh, Dash, and Plotly.

Afaan's development expertise encompasses AB Testing, the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Spark, Pig), and Machine Learning using SciKit-Learn. He pursued a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, a Master's in Engineering Management at Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Smart Cities module at Imperial College London. Additionally, he completed courses in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML & CSS, JQuery, SQL, Ajax, Sinatra, and ActiveRecord at Dev Bootcamp.

In terms of professional experience, Afaan has held roles at notable organizations such as Cloudflare as a Senior Data Analyst, TrustYou as a Senior BI Data Analyst, WeWork as Associate Director of Global Real Estate Data & Insights, KATERRA as Design Tools and Automation Engineer, and Arup in various capacities from Associate to Senior Engineer & Project Manager.