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DATA & ANALYTICS ENGINEER — LEICESTER, UK

Syed Hussnain Tahir Sherazi

Data engineer at Leicester City Council (Digital, Data and Technology). I build the pipelines, semantic models and Power BI reporting systems that move teams from raw operational data to clear decisions. The Power BI standard I built was approved as the council-wide template in 2025.

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PL-300 — Power BI Data Analyst Associate DP-600 — Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate DP-700 — Fabric Data Engineer Associate DP-900 — Azure Data Fundamentals AB-731 — AI Transformation Leader CertNexus — ETL Data Credential 🎓MSc — Cloud Computing, Distinction AaC1 — English Language
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Years full-time experience
£0K+
Sales tracked via SellScene AI
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Authored books & guides
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Knowledge-sharing articles
MSc
Cloud Computing · Distinction
BSc
Software Engineering · UMT
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My skills as a semantic model

A compact star schema. fact_Delivery relates to the skill dimensions that feed it. Hover any table to focus it.

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This site behaves like one of my reports

This is my actual interactive career report, embedded live. Slice it by year, field or employer right here, or open it full-screen.

career_journey.pbix — live embed open full report ↗
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Books & research

Three practitioner books and a peer-reviewed chapter. browse all in the store →

BOOK · 2026

From Reports to Reasoning

The business analyst's guide to agentic AI with Power BI, Excel and Microsoft Fabric. It moves teams from static reporting toward AI-supported decision workflows.

From Reports to Reasoning — book cover
BOOK · 2025

The Power BI Performance Bible

A practitioner's field manual for making Power BI reports fast enough to actually use. It covers model design, DAX, visual tuning and scale.

The Power BI Performance Bible — book cover
BOOK · 2026

Since 2022

What happened to Pakistan's computer science graduates, and what comes next. A field manual on graduate absorption, regional opportunity and the talent pipeline.

Since 2022 — book cover
PEER-REVIEWED CHAPTER · 2024

Secure Data Sharing in Healthcare

A blockchain and digital-twins approach to secure healthcare data sharing. Peer-reviewed chapter in Digital Twins for Sustainable Healthcare in the Metaverse, IGI Global (pp. 255 to 286).

IGI GLOBAL
Secure Data Sharing in Healthcare
Blockchain & Digital Twins
DOI 10.4018/
979-8-3693-4199-5.ch011
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Selected work

Six builds with real outcomes. For the year-by-year career, open the interactive report ↗.

IMPACT
Adopted
as the council-wide standard, 2025
2025 — LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL

Council-wide Power BI standard

Authored the style guide, performance best-practice guides and report templates. Senior stakeholders approved them via the Leicester Insight Group, they were adopted as the council's official standard, and I trained developers to use them.

Power BIGovernanceDocumentationTraining
STATUS
LIVE
SQL Server → Microsoft Fabric
2025 — LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL

On-premise → Microsoft Fabric migration

Moving council service teams onto cloud datasets, pipelines and reporting, including the Granicus to Netcall platform migration, with government API integrations for automated, near real-time insight.

MS FabricETL/ELTSQL ServerREST APIs
TRACTION
£50.8K
tracked sales · 349 transactions
2024–25 — SELLSCENE AI

SellScene AI: product intelligence platform

Designed and built an ecommerce decision-support system for eBay sellers. It scores demand signals, competition, margin and sourcing quality with AI to surface products worth listing. Won competitive University of Lincoln startup funding.

Next.jsFastAPIPostgreSQLOpenAI
SERVED
6M
residents · dashboards still in daily use
2022–23 — WASA LAHORE (VOLUNTARY)

Public utility data architecture rebuild

Rebuilt a water utility's data and reporting architecture, migrated SSRS to Power BI, and shipped predictive-maintenance views by zone and severity. Senior management still uses them daily.

Data WarehousePower BISSRS MigrationPredictive Views
CLASSIFIED
169K
records → 13K prioritised issues
2022–23 — TRANSSION HOLDINGS

KT4 research & analytics programme

Classified roughly 169,000 after-sales records into about 13,000 prioritised issues and analysed a 47-question survey of 700+ owners. The research shipped product changes in four countries and earned a three-grade promotion.

Data ClassificationUX ResearchSurvey DesignKOL Panels
REACH
Every cohort
taught at the bootcamp, every term
2025 — MAGNA CARTA COLLEGE

Applied Generative AI curriculum

Authored the agentic AI stage of a UK bootcamp: a hands-on n8n workshop where learners build an agent with chat, OAuth calendar, Pinecone RAG and image generation. It is now taught to every cohort.

Agentic AIn8nRAGCurriculum
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