Summary
Pauline Cairns is a freelance data analyst and founder of Data For Knowledge with eight years’ experience turning messy datasets into actionable dashboards and monitoring tools. She excels in Power BI, SQL, DAX and R—building solutions for finance, compliance and CO2 tracking—and pairs technical delivery with user-focused guidance via tutorials on her website and YouTube channel. Her background includes business intelligence work for Stena Drilling and an MSc (Distinction) in IT with Business Intelligence from Robert Gordon University, where she applied R Shiny and spatial analysis to vessel AIS data. Comfortable with both consultancy and hands-on engineering, she blends tax and industry domain experience from PwC with practical software skills gained at CodeClan, making her adept at delivering transparent, decision-ready reporting for operational teams.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Information Technology with Business Intelligence, Distinction, Master of Science - MSc, Information Technology with Business Intelligence, Distinction at Robert Gordon University