2025 — Present
Senior Data Partner · Tabby
Working remotely in fintech, partnering with teams on data systems, analysis, and decision support.
About
About Lasha.
Pipeline Patterns is about how analytical data systems actually work — and how to use that understanding to build pipelines you can trust and decompose the legacy ones you can't.
I am a data professional working across analytics, data engineering, architecture, and stakeholder-facing data strategy. My work has mostly lived in the space where business questions meet technical systems: settlement processes, warehouse architecture, semantic layers, BI products, data quality, and the pipelines that make reporting trustworthy.
Pipeline Patterns is where I explain how analytical data systems actually work: storage, execution, modeling, orchestration, interoperability, and correctness. The goal is not tool fluency by itself. The goal is system understanding you can use to build trusted pipelines and decompose legacy ones that no longer deserve trust.
The audience I write for is the working analyst, analytics engineer, data engineer, or technical stakeholder whose job depends on the numbers being right. The goal is to make the underlying mechanisms legible enough that people can reason about tradeoffs, not just copy patterns.
Professional work.
2023 — 2025
Solutions Architect, Data Warehouse & Interoperability · Bank of Georgia
Automated the VISA card settlement process, removing about 3 hours of manual work per day — roughly 750 hours per year. Worked across stakeholders, architecture, technical specifications, and engineering execution.
2021 — 2023
Business Intelligence Lead & Senior BI Analyst · Squadforce
Led BI and data engineering work, streamlined 30+ manual data tasks, reduced weekly manual effort by more than 30 hours, built a unified data layer, and created monitoring for data quality and customer experience.
2020 — 2021
Top Rated Freelancer · Upwork
Completed 30+ projects with a 100% success rate across web scraping, data modeling, analysis, automation, and data engineering.
2020 — 2021
Senior BI Consultant · ACT
Built Python network-analysis scripts and Power BI reporting for Leadership Scanner, an organizational network analysis product for talent discovery and management.
2019 — 2020
Data Engineer & Analyst · TBC Bank
Developed a reporting system from scratch for Payments League and helped migrate ETL scripts from a legacy environment to a distributed setup.
Why I teach.
The same problems kept appearing in different forms: unclear data definitions, brittle pipelines, hidden manual work, dashboards without trustworthy layers underneath them, and optimization advice that ignored how the system actually executes. Teaching is how I turn those lessons into something reusable.
How to follow the work.
The essays live on Substack — that is the main channel and the one to subscribe to if you want the work delivered. The community is on Skool, for readers who want to discuss the pieces and push back on the arguments. Short-form thinking and conversation lives on LinkedIn, and video explanations live on YouTube.
To invite me to speak, or to write about something you would want me to address, write me at hello@pipelinepatterns.co.