YJ Thay is a Senior Data Analytics Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building production-grade analytics and ML systems for finance and payments. At Checkout.com he engineered ELT pipelines, productionised Prophet forecasting in dbt/Snowflake, and saved $50k annually by integrating Similarweb via AWS while reducing forecast errors and automating analyst-configurable models. His background spans trading analytics and Python toolkits at Barclays Capital, hands-on ML research from a UCL MSc (distinction), and early leadership as a platoon commander—bringing disciplined problem solving and operational rigor to data governance, CI/CD, and monitoring. Comfortable bridging research and production, he focuses on interpretable, resource-efficient models and reproducible pipelines that deliver measurable business impact.
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