Data consultant & university lecturer · West Yorkshire, UK

One version of the truth.

I'm Abdou Sadou. I help organisations govern, clean and use their data with confidence: governance frameworks, master data, GDPR-compliant procedures, and the pipelines and dashboards that put them to work.

PERSON · abdou_sadou
role
Data consultant & lecturer
location
West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
specialisms
governance · MDM · BI · big data
status
VERIFIED

Proof points

  • 5+ years in data across telecoms, consulting & higher education
  • 15% fewer external complaints · Ooredoo KPI programme
  • 5 professional certifications, all independently verifiable
  • 2 data products shipped end to end, solo

Selected work

Case studies in trustworthy data.

  • Inventara

    An inventory SaaS for the chemical industry, shipped end to end, solo, with governance built into the schema.

    • FastAPI
    • Next.js
    • PostgreSQL
  • Data Governance Platform

    An end-to-end governance platform on French open data, where every rule is enforced by a test rather than written in a policy.

    • PostgreSQL
    • dbt
    • OpenMetadata
    • Soda
  • Company Reference Data

    A golden-record master built on a deliberately corrupted CRM whose answer key I hold: F1 of 0.977 and SIRET completeness lifted from 60% to 99.5% — measured, not asserted.

    • Python
    • Splink
    • DuckDB
    • PostgreSQL
  • Customer Data 360

    High-volume customer data made reliable: quality controls and dashboards that sharpened market segmentation.

    • Python
    • Spark
    • SQL
    • Power BI
  • Decision Tree Builder

    A decision-support tool where nothing malformed gets in: strict validation, interactive evaluation, full edit history.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
  • Network Change Registry

    Traceable, consistent network-change history, feeding the KPI programme that cut external complaints by 15%.

    • Oracle
    • SQL
    • Python
    • Power BI
Experience

Where strategy met execution.

  1. Data Consultant · One1Star Solutions

    Oct 2023 – present · York, England

    I lead data-governance delivery: data mapping, role definitions, usage and access rules, and GDPR-compliant data-management procedures. I design and optimise the ETL processes, data models and workflows behind the firm's BI capability, identify data-valorisation use cases, and advise stakeholders on architecture and technical debt.

  2. Lecturer, Business & Data Analytics · University of Huddersfield

    Jan 2023 – present · Huddersfield, England

    I teach business intelligence, data science and statistical analysis to master's students, and supervise applied research projects in data and machine learning. As an SAP-accredited educator (SAP University Alliances), I teach master data management and end-to-end S/4HANA Sales & Distribution, from master data to financial documents.

  3. Analytics & Planning Engineer · Ooredoo

    Oct 2020 – Aug 2021 · Algiers, Algeria

    I built and tracked network-performance KPIs that cut external complaints by 15%, automated dashboards and reporting with Python, Pandas and Power BI, and designed the internal database that made network-change history traceable and consistent.

  4. IP Engineer · Huawei Technologies

    May 2020 – Oct 2020 · Algiers, Algeria

    Technical studies and low-level designs for the modernisation of Algeria's ISP network; configuration and deployment of NE40E routers, S12700 switches and NCE servers; supervision of subcontractor teams.

  5. IT Engineer · AGENOR

    Oct 2018 – May 2020 · Algiers, Algeria

    BI reporting with Excel and SQL for sales and finance; centralised multi-site infrastructure with VPN access and hardened data security; authored the company's IT charter and governance policies.

Teaching

I also teach this.

Since 2023 I've lectured in Business & Data Analytics at the University of Huddersfield: BI, data science and statistical analysis for master's cohorts, plus SAP S/4HANA as an SAP-accredited educator, covering master data management and the full Sales & Distribution cycle. I hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education.

Teaching keeps my practice honest: if I can't explain a governance decision to a room of students, it isn't finished.

RECORD · teaching
institution
University of Huddersfield
courses
BI · data science · statistical analysis · SAP S/4HANA SD
accreditation
SAP University Alliances
pgcert
Higher Education, 2023–2024

Certifications

Independently verifiable.

Skills

A catalogue, not a cloud.

governance & mdm
  • governance frameworks
  • data mapping
  • master data management
  • data quality
  • ISO 8000
  • data-management procedures
  • GDPR compliance
  • ETL
databases
  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle
  • MongoDB
programming & analytics
  • Python
  • SQL
  • R
  • Apache Spark
  • Databricks
bi & visualisation
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Looker
  • Excel
cloud & big data
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Snowflake
ml & statistics
  • predictive modelling
  • A/B testing
  • regression analysis
About

Strategy that ships.

Portrait of Abdou Sadou
Abdou Sadou · West Yorkshire, UK

I'm a data consultant and lecturer based in West Yorkshire, England. Over five-plus years, from telecoms in Algiers to consulting and academia in Yorkshire, I've worked where data strategy meets execution: writing the governance frameworks, master-data models and GDPR-compliant procedures, then building the ETL pipelines, models and dashboards that turn them into working products.

Outside client work I design and ship my own: Inventara, an inventory SaaS for the chemical industry, and a decision-tree builder, both built end to end, alone. I care about data people can actually trust: accurate, documented, secure, and used.

Languages: English (fluent) · French (DALF C2) · Arabic (native)

Education

  • PGCert Higher Education University of Huddersfield 2023–24
  • MSc Business Intelligence & Analytics University of Huddersfield 2021–22
  • MSc Computer Science USTHB 2016–18
  • BSc Electronics & Telecommunications USTHB 2012–15
Contact

Let's make your data trustworthy.

Open to consulting engagements and data leadership roles.


Status · Open to engagements