David Ackroyd
Business Intelligence Architect at Trafigura
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Ackroyd is a Business Intelligence Architect with over 30 years of IT experience and eight years focused on oil and gas in Houston, now based in Calgary. He specializes in building pragmatic, future-proof data and integration solutions—MS SQL, Oracle, VBA and BI tooling—designed to avoid brittle code and reduce manual handoffs. His work spans pricing engines, SOAP/XML and EDICOM invoicing integrations, and streamlining middle-office processes to cut operational risk. Having toggled between consulting and in-house roles across finance and commodity trading, he combines strong business analysis with hands-on delivery. Not obviously stated, he has repeatedly turned legacy systems into reliable integration hubs, migrating test and HR systems as part of broader modernization efforts.
8 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
NZ Certificate in Data Processing (now NZ Diploma in Information Systems ), Computer Science, NZ Certificate in Data Processing (now NZ Diploma in Information Systems ), Computer Science at Auckland University of Technology
Github Skills (62)
debugging10
sega10
dotnet10
winforms10
commodore10
nes-emulator10
libretro10
nes10
emulation10
editor9
electron9
markdown9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
csharp9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
davidackroyd99/balloon-route-finder
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
davidackroyd99/dotnetfunfacts
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:84 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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