Samad Husain

Data & AI for nonprofits

Focus

  • Donor retention analytics
  • Data engineering
  • Analytics engineering (dbt)
  • BigQuery & Looker
  • Product analytics
  • Agentic AI

Certifications

  • Claude Certified Architect — Professional
  • Dataiku Core Designer

Education

  • University of Maryland
  • B.A. Economics

Projects

I took a 50% pay cut to join LaunchGood as its first data hire. Four years later the platform had raised over $600M, and the biggest lever was donor retention. Datstra Analytics brings that data engine to nonprofits that never had one.

Work history

Datstra Analytics

2023—PRESENT

Co-founder

Data, automation and AI that help nonprofits keep the donors they already have.

Apple (via Action)

2024—PRESENT

Data Engineer

Analytics engineering for Environment and Supply Chain Innovation: systems behind Apple's responsibility programs.

LaunchGood

2021—2024

Lead Data Engineer, first data hire

Built the modern data stack (Airbyte, Heap, BigQuery, dbt, Looker) behind $600M+ raised.

Myers-Holum

2020—2021

Looker Data Engineer

Looker expert for enterprise clients: LookML models and BigQuery performance tuning.

Beacon Street Services

2018—2020

Data Engineer

Pipelines from Salesforce, Zuora and ExactTarget into Snowflake and Redshift; Looker and Tableau.

Morgan Stanley

2018

IT Business Analyst

KPI packages and data governance for Wealth Management.