Bhavesh Nathwani

Promoted to full ownership of data strategy, infrastructure, engineering and analytics. Served as core data stakeholder during the acquisition of Canopy's largest competitor.

• Published the data architecture and methodologies behind Canopy's Rental Affordability Index, cited 400+ times by the BBC, Sky News and The Independent. It significantly drove brand authority and organic reach.
• Led post-acquisition data integration: mapped and reconciled highly complex, disparate operational datasets from both companies to create a single source of truth for company-wide KPIs and reporting.
• Overhauled core data infrastructure via a major migration from Google BigQuery and AWS Redshift to PostgreSQL, reducing pipeline processing times by 90%.
• Drove adoption of the company's self-serve analytics framework, empowering cross-functional teams to build their own reports, cutting ad-hoc data requests by 75%+.
• Mentored a Junior Data Analyst through to a Principal Data Analyst contract at the BBC; established company-wide data governance, integrity checkpoints, and automated reconciliation frameworks.

Appointed as the first data hire, architecting and launching Canopy's central data function from scratch.

• Evaluated and overhauled the BI tech stack, migrating from vendor-implemented AWS QuickSight to Metabase, a more intuitive, cost-effective and scalable solution.
• Built scalable reporting infrastructure, automating weekly, monthly and quarterly operational insight loops that removed manual bottlenecks and improved leadership forecasting accuracy.
• Introduced predictive modelling and cohort analysis to evaluate user behaviour, identify churn risks and surface expansion opportunities for product and marketing teams.