Who I Am#
Since 2005, I’ve worked virtually every role in data engineering: engineer building DWH stars and ETL pipes, analyst debugging SQL queries at 2 AM, business intelligence consultant refining pixel-perfect dashboards, project manager herding cats on country-scale implementations.
Along the way, I launched several companies: some in AI, some adjacent, all educational in their own special ways. Most failed. A few succeeded. All taught me something about the gap between what executives think they need and what actually moves the needle.
I’ve spent two decades on both sides of the corporate fence: leading IT projects within enterprises, selling B2B solutions to enterprise buyers and running startups that barely made payroll. This dual perspective –vendor and customer, consultant and founder – shapes everything I write here.
My Point of View#
I’m bullish on AI progress and technological advancement—genuinely excited about what’s possible. But I’m skeptical of hype cycles that ignore human factors: change management, team capability, organizational readiness. The real bottleneck in AI adoption isn’t compute power or model performance. It’s culture, governance, and the messy human work of transformation.
This is a personal blog –highly opinionated and unfiltered. Nothing here reflects the positions of any current or former company I work for, am affiliated with, or provide services to. These are my views, shaped by my successes and failures, not corporate talking points.
Get in Touch#
I’m at andrew@andrewbush.org or find me on LinkedIn.