Summary
Brandi Besalke is a Business Intelligence Engineer with 11 years of experience translating messy data into actionable sales and operational insights, currently building automated big-data dashboards and reports at Anheuser-Busch. A liberal-arts-trained analyst (ABD in German) who retrained through LaunchCode, she blends strong communication and analytical instincts with hands-on skills in SQL, SAS, R, Python, VB, Excel/VBA, QlikView/QlikSense, and Power BI. She has a track record of integrating SQL-backed data pipelines with automated reporting and visualization, speeding routine updates and decision-making for sales teams. Earlier work maintaining school IT infrastructure and writing custom Python/SQL tools reflects a pragmatic, full-stack approach to problem solving. Quietly, her humanities background informs clear data storytelling and cross-team collaboration that helps nontechnical stakeholders act on complex analyses.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, German Language and Literature, Master's degree, German Language and Literature at Washington University in St. Louis
University of Missouri
Japanese, German