Data projects with a clear business purpose.
Selected systems delivered during Tal Shany’s career across hospitals, telecoms, banking and infrastructure. Each example explains the business problem, the work delivered and the outcome. These include roles before BiSkilled; client names are withheld where confidentiality requires it.
Department P&L, budgeting and finance models for a major hospital
The challenge. Hospital leadership ran operations on SAP (incl. R/3), but finance visibility stopped at whole-organisation level. Department heads had no true profit & loss view, budgeting was a manual spreadsheet exercise, and every planning cycle depended on one-off data pulls.
What we built. Full department-level profit & loss models across the hospital, a structured budgeting framework, and organisation-wide finance models — built on data integrated from the SAP operational systems, with the dashboards and reports finance teams use day to day.
Large-scale Python ETL platform for a telecom operator
The challenge. Massive data volumes across operational and business systems, moved by a patchwork of brittle jobs and manual steps. Integrations broke silently, and every new data need meant weeks of one-off engineering.
What we built. A large-scale, Python-based ETL platform: ingestion from the operator's core systems, transformation and validation layers, and orchestrated, monitored pipelines — engineered as reusable tooling rather than one-off scripts.
What the platform brought together
The work combined ingestion from operational systems, Python transformation and validation, and pipeline orchestration and monitoring. Those components addressed different parts of the problem: getting data in, preparing it for downstream use, and making data movement operable.
The reusable tooling mattered because each additional integration could use the same platform. The reported outcome was a repeatable way to onboard sources and targets, rather than a separate set of scripts for every request.
How this relates to your data project
If your reporting depends on fragile jobs, start by identifying which report needs the data, which sources feed it and who responds when a run fails. That defines a useful first scope for integration and pipeline work.
For a smaller reporting process, the same questions can guide a focused automation. Our reporting automation guide provides an illustrative workflow and acceptance checklist; it is guidance for a new project, not an account of additional work delivered in this engagement.
Customer 360 data platform for a bank
The challenge. Customer data fragmented across core banking, CRM and channel systems — no single, trusted view of a customer, and every business question about customers required manual reconciliation.
What we built. A unified Customer 360 platform: integration from the source systems, entity resolution into a single customer record, and governed data models serving service, marketing and risk use cases.
Blockchain infrastructure for institutional finance
The challenge. A network for regulated, tokenised institutional assets needs infrastructure that satisfies financial-grade expectations: secure, available, and operable — not a lab prototype.
What we built. Core infrastructure for the blockchain-based network: environment architecture, deployment automation and the operational foundations for running distributed financial infrastructure in production.
AWS infrastructure across diverse customers
The challenge. Growing organisations across sectors needed cloud foundations that scale — without the drift, snowflake servers and surprise bills that come from ad-hoc cloud adoption.
What we built. AWS platform engineering across multiple customers: infrastructure as code, environment and account architecture, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and cost controls — repeatable foundations shaped to each organisation.
What are you working on?
Fragmented data, a process to automate or a system to build — tell me what needs to change.
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