Ryan Ussery, Business Intelligence Engineer

Building Durable Software and Data Solutions

For more than 10 years I’ve owned enterprise reporting: Power BI semantic models that keep metrics consistent, migrations to modern data platforms, and the pipelines that keep reports current. Based in St. Louis, working remotely.

How I Help

  • Semantic Models and Reporting

    Power BI models, DAX, and reports built so every team calculates the same metric the same way.

  • Platform Migrations

    Moving reporting from Qlik, Tableau, or a legacy warehouse to Power BI, Snowflake, or BigQuery, with report conversion and a planned cutover.

  • Reporting Automation

    Pipelines, scheduled refreshes, and report distribution that take the manual steps out of recurring reporting.

  • AI-Assisted and AI-Native Software Development

    Web and desktop software built with AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex, including applications with AI features at their core.

Tools I Use Most

  • Power BI
  • DAX
  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Tableau
  • Qlik Sense
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Airflow

Experience

  1. NorthWinds Technology Solutions

    BI Consultant

    Leading a Qlik Sense to Power BI and Snowflake migration: three semantic models and more than 160 reports for users across six companies.

  2. Magellan Health

    Lead BI and Analytics Developer (Consulting)

    Led the move from on-premises Tableau to Tableau Cloud and built certified data sources that replaced ad hoc spreadsheet extracts.

  3. Panera Bread

    Lead BI Developer and Analyst

    Ran the enterprise Power BI environment and led the move from an on-premises warehouse to BigQuery, with Kafka and Airflow.

  4. Gravitate Solutions

    Client Success Engineer

    Built Azure SQL pipelines feeding client-facing data warehouses and analytics.

  5. Expedia

    Vendor Services Analyst

    Built Salesforce reporting for vendor services, led OBIEE and Oracle upgrades, and automated billing reports.

Projects

PBIPro

A Power BI release and version control platform I built. It snapshots reports and semantic models, compares them across workspaces, and shows what a change will affect before it is released. Early access is available by request.

MapCity

A city-building sandbox for drawing and editing cities, on a blank map or on real map data. It is a native Rust application that renders OpenStreetMap data in 3D, from single streets up to an entire continent. MapCity is live in Early Access on Steam for Windows and macOS, where players rate it Positive.

Contact

For BI consulting or employment opportunities, email me with a little about your team and what you need help with.