Barry Azihuwa

Barry Azihuwa

Open to roles · DE / CH

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Barry Azihuwa, Developer & Data Consultant: Business,
Data &
Software

Years of experience
7+
Projects shipped
10+
Technologies in use
20+

Projects

Products I built or develop

Client work

Work for clients and employers. No public code, but real outcomes.

Transform8 · München10/2022 – 02/2023

Four departments, one source of truth

BI Consultant (internship)

REVENUE€2.4MORDERS18.2kRETURNS−3.1%MONTHLY SALESBY REGION
Illustration · no client data
Context
Departments prepared data by hand, again and again, and decided without shared numbers.
What I did
Built Qlik Sense and Power BI dashboards, data models and automated ETL workflows; designed and ran client workshops and trainings.
Outcome
Four departments decide on data and build their own reports.
  • Power BI
  • Qlik Sense
  • ETL
  • Workshops

EnBW · Karlsruhe06/2025 – 10/2025

Logs from scattered systems, queryable in one place

Log Monitoring & Analytics (working student)

ON-PREM → AZUREapp-01db-clustergatewayLogstashElasticKibanaLOGS FROM DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, ONE INDEX
Illustration · no client data
Context
Operational data sat in many source systems, and the Elastic Stack was moving from on-premise to Azure.
What I did
Developed and tested Logstash pipelines, built index templates and Kibana dashboards, and worked on the live migration.
Outcome
The team analyses operational data on its own, on the new Azure platform.
  • Elasticsearch
  • Logstash
  • Kibana
  • Azure

Akkus Strategy & Execution · Zürich11/2025 – 09/2026

The tech backbone of a startup

Technical Operations Specialist (freelance)

Websiteasande.ch · DE/ENMail & DNSdomains · 5 inboxesWorkflowsZoho functionsAI scraperRailway · enrichZoho CRMSYSTEM OF RECORD
Illustration · no client data
Context
A Swiss consulting startup with no technical infrastructure: no website, no CRM, nothing connecting them.
What I did
Set up domains, DNS and mailboxes, built the bilingual website asande.ch, connected its forms to Zoho CRM and automated workflows that enrich deals with an AI scraper. All of it handed over with documentation.
Outcome
One connected system with the CRM as the single source of truth; enquiries land there automatically.
  • Zoho One
  • React
  • Python
  • Vercel
  • Railway

1&1 Telecommunication · Karlsruhe11/2024 – 02/2025

Regression tests that run themselves

Test Automation (working student)

checkoutbillingcontractsportalMANUALAUTOMATED · FITNESSE + GAUGERELEASES →
Illustration · no client data
Context
Regression tests ran by hand, and results were hard to compare across releases.
What I did
Automated tests on FitNesse and Gauge, set up consistent test data and documented results in a structured way.
Outcome
Reproducible test runs across releases, with traceable root causes.
  • FitNesse
  • Gauge
  • Test data

Career

Six roles since 2019

  1. 06/2026 – now

    KiezGold — Grant Developments UG

    Software Developer · Freelance · Berlin

    • Shipped new features into production without interrupting users.
    • Took the app from zero instrumentation to full PostHog event tracking, with funnels and dashboards.
    • Widened and stabilised web scraping across more sources.
    “He got to grips with the existing codebase in a very short time and took over full technical responsibility.”
    KiezGold — Grant Developments UG · Interim reference 10/2026, translated from German
  2. 11/2025 – 09/2026

    Akkus Strategy & Execution GmbH

    Technical Operations Specialist · Freelance · Zürich

    • Made a Swiss startup operational by building its technical infrastructure.
    • Replaced manual sales follow-up with AI-assisted lead pipelines into the CRM.
    • Shortened coordination loops as the technical link to the business side.
    “The automations he developed reduced manual work steps and made internal processes more efficient.”
    Akkus Strategy & Execution GmbH · Interim reference 07/2026, translated from German
  3. 06/2025 – 10/2025

    EnBW

    Log Monitoring & Analytics DMS · Working student · Karlsruhe

    • Made operational data queryable through log processing in Elasticsearch.
    • Developed and tested Logstash pipelines; supported the Elastic Stack migration to Azure.
    • Built Kibana dashboards and index templates for self-service analysis.
    “In all his tasks he showed very good analytical skills and judgement.”
    EnBW · Reference 10/2025, translated from German
  4. 11/2024 – 02/2025

    1&1 Telecommunication

    Test Automation · Working student · Karlsruhe

    • Automated regression tests with FitNesse and Gauge.
    • Reproducible test runs across releases through consistent test data.
  5. 10/2022 – 02/2023

    Transform8

    BI Consultant · Internship · München

    • Qlik Sense and Power BI dashboards for four departments.
    • Designed and ran client workshops, trainings and onboarding.
    • Replaced manual data prep with data models and ETL workflows.
    “Particularly noteworthy is his very good work connecting ChatGPT to Qlik Sense, and how he learned Qlik Sense, building a complex demo data model and various dashboards in it.”
    Transform8 · Internship reference 03/2023, translated from German
  6. 10/2019 – 07/2021

    Huwa Media

    Customer Satisfaction Manager · Freiburg

    • Grew revenue by 19% through A/B-tested Facebook Ads campaigns.
    • Lowered the return rate by analysing customer data and handling support directly.

Education

09/2020 – 08/2024

B.Sc. International IT Business

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences · Karlsruhe

ThesisThe Significance of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: An Empirical Study

Semester abroad at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (09/2023 – 02/2024)

Skills

Grouped by what I use it for

Data & BI

  • Power BI
  • Qlik Sense
  • Elasticsearch
  • Logstash
  • Kibana
  • PostHog
  • Python
  • ETL

Web

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS

Mobile

  • Flutter
  • Dart
  • React Native

Backend & cloud

  • SQL
  • Supabase
  • Convex
  • Java
  • C#
  • Azure

Consulting

  • Workshops & Trainings
  • Requirements
  • Stakeholder-Management
  • Scrum

Side projects

Smaller projects, more fun than business plan

Personal

Ultramarathon runner. Long projects don't scare me.

Chess: think first, then move.

Tutor for Introduction to Business Informatics.

German, English, French, Spanish.