Samad Husain

Data & AI architect for nonprofits

Focus

  • Data architecture
  • AI architecture
  • Donor retention analytics

Certifications

  • Claude Certified Architect — Professional

Education

  • University of Maryland
  • B.A. Economics

Projects

An AI agent answers from clean data and from garbage in the same confident voice. At Datstra Analytics we get your data into one place your team trusts, then build the AI on top of it. Before Datstra, I was LaunchGood's first data hire. Four Ramadans later there was a team of five, every department worked from the same numbers, and first-time donor retention peaked at 22% against a 15% sector average.

Work history

Datstra Analytics

2023—PRESENT

Co-founder & Principal Architect

AI agents that answer donor questions and show their work. Reporting that teams actually open. Sprints that automate one process. Training for teams that build with AI themselves.

Apple (via Action)

2024—PRESENT

Data & AI Architect

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

LaunchGood

2021—2024

Lead Data Engineer, first data hire

Designed the data stack (Airbyte, Heap, BigQuery, dbt, Looker) that put every department on the same numbers. Grew the team from one to five.

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.