Mason Walters · Austin, TX

Consulting only

Experience

Analytics Engineer

SonarSource · Austin, TX

May 2025 – Present

First US-based member of the data team, building the company's go-to-market analytics.

  • Automated ARR reporting for multiple sales channels (Direct, Channel, Renewals) using Python, dbt, Airflow, and Redshift.
  • Led the implementation of a dbt mesh strategy to isolate model ownership across teams and reduce the blast radius of data-quality issues.
  • Built a metadata reconciliation tool to surface source-system evolution and detect drift in data quality and business logic before it reaches reports.

Director of Business Intelligence

Amherst Residential · Austin, TX

May 2023 – Oct 2024

Led a distributed team of 10+ Business Intelligence Engineers and Analysts across Texas and Costa Rica, and served as the primary technical liaison between executives and software developers.

  • Cut annual Tableau Server spend 30% by removing unused licenses and adding governance controls; deleted 300+ redundant workbooks and made extract refreshes 40% faster.
  • Built ETL pipelines from Yardi, Salesforce, and NetSuite into SQL Server and Snowflake with Stitch, Airflow, and dbt, cutting manual processing time in half.
  • Automated same-store P&L reporting for 27,000+ properties with Python, dbt, Airflow, and SQL Server, taking report generation from 2 days to 2 hours and opening it up to analysis in Tableau.

Senior Data Steward & FP&A Analyst

Homeward Inc · Austin, TX

Aug 2021 – Apr 2023

Promoted from Senior FP&A Analyst to Senior Data Steward at a fintech startup that tripled in size, and built the data pipelines and analytics platform (Fivetran, dbt, Airflow, Looker) that supported the growth.

  • Built a Looker reporting suite on real-time data from Salesforce, Segment, Google Analytics, and the company's web app, making decisions 40% faster.
  • Built pipelines combining consumer credit data and real estate metrics, which let the company grow operations 150% during its fastest stretch.
  • Maintained the data dictionary: lineage, business logic, and metric definitions.

Senior Financial Analyst

Realized 1031 · Austin, TX

May 2019 – Aug 2021

Worked with executive leadership to build data infrastructure for complex investment products, leading the rollout of a Snowflake warehouse and Airflow/dbt pipelines that cut data processing time 70%.

  • Rebuilt the lead-scoring program in Python and Airflow, cutting processing time 85% and raising conversion rates 20%.
  • Built a Power BI reporting suite with real-time views of sales, investment performance, and operations, raising sales efficiency 15%.
  • Built ETL pipelines from HubSpot, Google Analytics, QuickBooks, and REIS into Snowflake, cutting reporting errors 25%.

Portfolio Analyst

Main Street Renewal · Austin, TX

Mar 2017 – May 2019

Built metrics and reporting for nationwide single-family rental operations, including Tableau dashboards and predictive models that improved resource allocation and cut project delays 20%.

  • Designed a role-based Tableau suite so each team saw its own performance metrics, improving operational efficiency 15%.
  • Built a linear regression model that forecast construction completions with 96% accuracy, used to time pre-marketing.

Project Manager

Noble Capital · Austin, TX

Sep 2015 – Mar 2017

Set up the Asset Management division and the systems used to manage a portfolio of REO properties across Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin.

  • Created the REO onboarding process for assessing and securing properties on the company's balance sheet.
  • Worked with executives, investors, contractors, and attorneys to plan and carry out dispositions for 50+ properties.
  • Hired and trained realtors, property managers, and a full-time Asset Manager as the company grew.

Field Engineer

ProPetro Services Inc. · Midland, TX

Jan 2014 – Sep 2015

Oversaw high-pressure pumping operations and kept client representatives and equipment operators on the same page.

  • Gave technical guidance to key oil and gas clients and put improved completion designs into the field.
  • Kept the completion reports and billing documentation the back office ran on.

Education

BS - Corporate Communications

University of Texas at Austin · 2013

Certificate - Data Analytics and Visualization

University of Texas at Austin · 2017

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services · 2019

Technical Skills

Core

Python SQL ETL/ELT Data Modeling Data Analysis Big Data Data Engineering Data Governance

Tools & Platforms

Airflow Dagster Tableau Power BI dbt Looker Mode

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS Docker Git Linux