Author Biography

Nauman Sheikh is a veteran IT professional of 18 years with specialization and focus on data and analytics. His expertise range from data integration and data modeling in operational systems, to multiterabyte data warehousing systems, to analytics driven automated decisioning systems. He has worked in three continents solving data-centric problems in credit, risk, fraud, and customer analytics areas dealing with cultural, technological, and legal challenges surrounding automated decisioning systems. Throughout his career, he has been a firm believer in innovation through simplification to encourage better coordination between technical and business personnel, leading to innovative answers to pressing challenges.

He firmly believes in democratization of analytics and has been working diligently the last few years in building analytics systems using well-known and widely available components. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from F.A.S.T Institute of Computer Science, Pakistan and lives in Maryland with his wife and three lovely children.