Enterprise BI Architecture $85 – $125 / hr Contract Kansas City, MO · Remote

I Engineer High-Scale Tableau Systems & Eliminate Analytics Bottlenecks.

13+ years architecting enterprise Tableau Server clusters, tuning multi-million row extract pipelines, and conforming complex schema migrations from Netezza to Synapse & Snowflake.

Current Role: BI IV at AMC Theatres (Dec 2022 → Present)
Cluster Scale: 12-Node Cluster · 1,400 Viewers · 300 Publishers
Prior: Alphadyne · American Century · InMobi · Univ of Kansas

The Three Flagship Proofs

One proves taste, one proves craft, one proves judgement
Visual Craft · Beauty NOAA GHCNd

92 Years of KC Weather

Rejects clichéd warming stripes to plot the 9-decade narrowing of the diurnal temperature swing (TMAX − TMIN) across 33,604 unbroken daily observations at KC Downtown Airport.

Period: 1934 → 2026 Diurnal Shift: −17.3%
Open Weather Viz → Read Beauty Research Paper
Technical · Engineering KC Open Data · 311

What the City Stopped Measuring

Kansas City replaced PeopleSoft with MyKCMO in March 2021. Conforming 2.38M records across incompatible schemas reveals a 63% collapse in taxonomy depth and the loss of neighborhood tracking.

Total Requests: 2,385,708 Taxonomy: 6 → 2 Levels
Open 311 Drill Explorer → Read Technical Paper
Business Insight · Judgement College Scorecard

Which Degrees Pay the Debt Back

Pairs median graduation debt with median earnings 1 year out per CIP program code. Proves that field of study drives repayment velocity 4.2x more than institutional brand prestige.

Scope: Field of Study (CIP) Burdened: 38.2% > 1.0x
Open Scorecard Explorer → Read Business Insight Paper

Plotly Hierarchy Python Library

Open-Source Tooling · Standalone Drill-Down Interactivity
Python Library · plotly_hierarchy

Bringing Tableau & PowerBI Hierarchy Interactivity to Plotly

Tableau contracts repeatedly ask for drill-through interactivity: category expansion, linked breadcrumb trails, and drill-up buttons. We packaged this engine into plotly_hierarchy, a standalone Python library that generates self-contained interactive HTML deliverables without requiring a live Dash or Python server.

Open Live Interactive Library Demo →
# Install & Generate Drill-Down Plot from plotly_hierarchy import HierarchyChart chart = HierarchyChart.from_records( records=df_kc_311, levels=["department", "work_group", "request_type", "detail"], value_col="request_count", title="311 Taxonomy Drill-Down" ) # Exports standalone HTML with breadcrumbs chart.to_html("output_drilldown.html")

Research & Architectural Dossiers

Thought leadership on design, engineering, and business strategy
Dossier 01 · Visual Design

The Architecture of Beauty in BI Dashboards

An inquiry into Tufte's data-ink ratio, tri-font typographic discipline, accessible palette theory, and Tableau Viz of the Day (VOTD) criteria.

Read Full Research Paper →
Dossier 02 · Infrastructure

Engineering Beyond Drag-and-Drop: High-Scale Tableau

Level of Detail (LOD) query plan translation, set-action state machines, schema-drift conformance across cutovers, and 12-node cluster topology.

Read Full Technical Paper →
Dossier 03 · Strategy

Engineering Business Insight: Why Most BI Fails

Overcoming the "So What?" trap by formulating explicit Dashboard Insight Sentences, decision trees, and ROI threshold quadrant zoning.

Read Full Strategy Paper →
Dossier 04 · Operations · $0.00/mo

The Cheapest Ways to Host a Website (2026)

Verified guide to zero-cost edge hosting (Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages), unmetered bandwidth rules, wholesale domain pricing ($9.77/yr), and 60-second deploy steps.

Read Hosting Research Guide →

Engineering Track Record

13+ Years Enterprise Tableau & Cloud Data Warehouse Systems
13+ Years
Tableau development & Server administration
12 Nodes
High-availability Tableau Server cluster management
1,400+
Enterprise viewers & 300 certified publishers supported
-60%+
Query runtime cuts via Synapse & Snowflake extract tuning

Primary Architectural Competencies

Server Administration & High Availability Installation, multi-node clustering, zero-downtime upgrades, backgrounder worker isolation, SSL certificate management, and automated backup/restore scripts.
Extract & Query Performance Tuning Hyper API automation, incremental refresh scheduling, partition pruning, converting row-level joins into conformed physical tables, and query pushdown optimization.
Cloud Data Warehouse Integration Snowflake, Azure Synapse, AWS Athena/Glue, Databricks, and legacy Netezza migrations. Expert in TabPy machine learning and Airflow pipeline orchestration.

Curriculum Vitae & Credentials

Tailored documentation for architecture and developer engagements
Download Daniel Jin's Resumes Updated September 2026 · Microsoft Word (.docx) Format
⇩ Architecture Resume (.docx) ⇩ Developer Resume (.docx)