Summary
Ben Mcchesney is a Principal BI Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable data platforms and analytics across startups and enterprise tech companies, now based in Oakland. He specializes in end-to-end data pipelines, ETL and modeling, and has a strong track record of automating manual reporting—eliminating 100+ manual reports and cutting latency by 90% through SQL, Python, dbt and Spark. Ben pairs technical execution with cross-functional leadership, having driven initiatives that improved cloud contract profitability by 5% and reduced critical data support issues by 95% through data quality practices. He blends hands-on engineering (Power BI, DAX, APIs, ML patterns) with product-minded stakeholder work, enabling GTM and finance teams to act on actionable insights. Notably, he’s led both rapid startup scaling as a CTO and industrial-grade BI modernization in larger orgs, bringing a rare mix of performance optimization and business impact.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Rochester Institute of Technology