Data Products Analytics Platforms GTM Strategy Cross-Functional Delivery

Tariq Dwekat
Data Engineer & Product Strategist

Technical product leader and subject matter expert on data products and analytics platforms. I ship solutions that turn ad-hoc workflows into self-serve insights — and I make content about the ideas that shape how we think.

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Tariq Dwekat

Professional Experience

Where I've Shipped

Data Engineer — AMD Austin, TX · Nov 2025 – Present
  • Shipped executive Power BI dashboards on a curated star schema semantic layer that directly informed multimillion-dollar headcount and budget allocation decisions across business units
  • Cut report latency 40% and compute costs 20% by identifying bottlenecks and driving optimization initiatives (aggregated fact tables, query tuning)
  • SME on Snowflake data architecture for Finance and HR analytics — defined KPIs with Finance leadership, built OLAP data marts, and eliminated 60% of ad-hoc reporting requests
Software Engineer – Specialist, Charles Schwab Westlake, TX · Jan 2023 – Nov 2025
  • Built an automated BigQuery and Cloud SQL validation pipeline that improved query performance 50% and established the data quality standard adopted org-wide
  • Owned observability end-to-end: scoped requirements with on-call teams, shipped Grafana/Prometheus dashboards with Kafka-streamed metrics, and cut incident detection time 20%
  • Led CI/CD migration from Bamboo to GitHub Actions — evaluated options, built the business case, executed phased rollout, and drove adoption, cutting deployment times 40%
  • Authored technical documentation and analytics dashboards for CI/CD and incident response workflows, adopted as the standard across multiple business units and referenced by 1,000+ engineers
Network Reliability Engineering Intern, Adobe San Jose, CA · May 2022 – Aug 2022
  • Identified certificate renewal as a reliability bottleneck and built Python (Flask) APIs to automate lifecycle management — achieved 99.9% uptime, reduced manual toil 90%
Founder & Creator — @tariqthinks YouTube · Substack · TikTok · Instagram · 2024 – Present
  • Launched a multi-platform content product from zero, independently owning end-to-end product lifecycle: audience research, content strategy, production, distribution, and iteration based on performance data
  • Developed a differentiated positioning strategy blending philosophical and psychological frameworks with media analysis, carving out a distinct niche in a saturated content landscape
  • Built and managed a multi-channel distribution pipeline (YouTube long-form, TikTok/Reels short-form, Substack written), adapting content to platform-specific audience behaviors

Product Experience

tariqthinks

Video essays blending philosophical and psychological themes with film, anime, and pop culture analysis.

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Core Competencies

What I Bring

Product Strategy & GTM

Roadmap Prioritization GTM Execution Adoption Strategy Requirements Definition KPI Design Stakeholder Management User Research Technical Enablement

Technical Depth

SQL Python Snowflake BigQuery dbt GCP AWS Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Kafka REST APIs

Analytics & Insights

Power BI Tableau Star Schema Dimensional Modeling ELT Pipeline Design Grafana Prometheus

Education & Certifications

North Carolina State University

B.S. Computer Engineering · Dec 2022

Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Fast.AI: Practical Deep Learning for Coders

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tariqzdwekat@gmail.com LinkedIn GitHub YouTube

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