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Kai Walker Donovan

I build analytics products and BI platforms that turn messy business problems into trusted decisions.

Data analyst and platform builder across BI, operations, product, AI tooling, and partner-facing analytics, with shipped products, measurable adoption, and multi-million-dollar impact.

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Impact at a glance

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  • ~200k

    Lines shipped (LookML, Python, platforms)

  • ~$2M+

    Traceable savings realised

  • 174

    Registered users (Capture)

  • ~100

    Hub monthly active users (Analyticado)

  • ~10

    Retail partners supported

Selected work

Three representative builds: an analytics discovery hub, a conversational analytics assistant, and an independently shipped consumer app with live usage metrics.

Analyticado

Internal platform

Centralised analytics hub with ~100 monthly active users

~100 monthly active users

Next.jsReactLooker API

Analyticado made trusted analytics easier to find. Dashboards, metadata, and usage signals sit in one searchable hub, supporting roughly 100 monthly active users and roughly a tenfold lift in engagement compared with the previous scattered entry points.

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K-AI - Conversational Analytics Assistant

Internal platform

One chat for sourced answers and conversational analytics

One assistant for sourced answers from docs and conversational analytics for metric questions

FastAPIVertex AILanceDB

K-AI gives teams one place for sourced answers from internal docs and the dashboard catalogue, plus conversational analytics when the question is really about numbers. Routing is tuned so people land on trustworthy explores, long answers run reliably behind corporate proxies, and analytics owners could tighten behaviour before wider rollout.

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Capture - Mobile Application

Product build

Cross-platform photo sharing app on iOS & Android

Launched on both app stores (January 2026)

FlutterDartSupabase

Independently shipped Capture on iOS and Android: shared photos surface after a delay, with subscriptions, one-time purchases, and ads configured end to end. Public metrics on this site show acquisition and retention moving as the product ships.

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What I do

Analytics platforms, BI and product tooling, AI-assisted workflows, and operational insight from messy frontline data to exec-ready narratives.

Analytics platforms

Discovery hubs, embedded BI, and governed metrics so teams find trusted answers without hunting across tools.

BI & product tooling

Roadmaps grounded in usage, navigation that reflects how operators search, and dashboards tuned with stakeholders.

AI workflows

Retrieval, routing, and guardrails so assistants cite sources and hand off cleanly to governed analytics.

Operational insight

Forecasting, cost-to-serve, and fulfilment analytics that change staffing, routing, and inventory decisions.

Proof

Analytics only lands when people trust the numbers and know what to do next. A recurring part of my work is managing stakeholders across commercial, operations, and tech, from discovery and prioritisation through readouts, adoption, and follow-up.

  • ~15-month US secondment embedded with a retail partner: daily contact with operations leadership, internal analytics, and supply chain; mentored partner analysts and ran hands-on training.
  • Direct client-facing delivery: presented promotion profitability and cost analysis decks with methodology walkthroughs, Q&A, and alignment between commercial and fulfilment leadership.
  • Partner (non-client) contexts: prioritised reporting roadmaps from real usage, walked teams through forecasts and tooling so decisions stuck, and paired narrative + visuals with operational reality.
  • Enablement at scale: trained ~100 users on self-serve analytics; shipped documentation and landing flows so discovery matched how teams actually searched for insight.

~200k

Lines of code contributed

~$2M+

Traceable savings realised

174

Registered users (Capture)

100+

Users trained on self-serve analytics

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CV

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Growth Direction & Working Style

How I collaborate, where I add the most value, and what I want next. Includes a PDF download that mirrors the page.

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Capture

Consumer app I build and ship end to end. Public metrics mirror what I watch when prioritising releases.

  • Growth, retention, and engagement in one dashboard.
  • Pipeline stays aligned with the product as it ships.