About

Senior analytics engineering with business context.

I am a Senior Analytics Engineer and Reporting Trust Consultant with more than eight years of production analytics engineering experience. I am UK-based and available for remote contract, interim and fixed-scope work with UK and international teams.

I work across SQL, dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Looker and LookML to build, refactor and stabilise the models, semantic logic, tests and reporting workflows that businesses depend on. The work stays hands-on while keeping the underlying decision, metric and operational context visible.

With an MBA from Alliance Manchester Business School and a broader commercial and leadership background, I developed a Reporting Trust approach to clarify source-to-report logic, reduce repeated checking and reconciliation, and make important business numbers safer to use.

That work sits inside a trusted information ecosystem: the connection between captured data, semantic meaning, business interpretation, action and realised value. Data Value Chain Architecture and the Semantic Layer Gate make those controls practical without losing sight of the delivery work.

Gavin Somers

Experience and approach

Business lens

Reporting trust starts with the decisions leaders need to make, the numbers they depend on, and the cost of getting those numbers wrong.

Technical depth

SQL, dbt, BigQuery, Snowflake, Looker, semantic-layer logic, source-to-report lineage, tests, and reporting marts.

Practical resources

I turn the patterns behind broken reporting foundations into books, articles, and tools that help teams diagnose and improve them.

Contract, interim and fixed-scope

Need senior analytics engineering capacity?

Share the stack, delivery need, reporting problem and timescale. I will reply directly if the engagement looks like a useful fit.