Garrett McClintock

Data & Analytics Engineering

I build data platforms that behave like products: clean hygiene, release cycles, and stakeholder feedback. The data team is a consultant on retainer, showing up with context, evidence, and a suggested solution.

  • Data platform ownership, from Data Ops to modeling standards to governance
  • Warehouse migrations with measurable cost and performance wins
  • AI-ready data models that make natural-language querying safe to expose
  • Automated reporting and book closes that take finance out of the spreadsheet
Location: 
Scottsdale, AZ (Greater Phoenix)
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About

I've spent my career where data meets decisions. From Lendio, where I built the analytics packages that helped close a $20MM Series D and launched a franchising division ranked #1 by Entrepreneur, to Shutterfly, where I owned the analytics stack across the SFLY brand umbrella, to Heap, where I ran analytics engineering on billions of records and cut Snowflake spend by 60%. Today I own the data platform at PDQ end to end, and I run the back office of my veterinary practice, SOL Veterinary, on a stack I built myself.

My operating principle is simple: data is a product, with hygiene, release cycles, and stakeholder feedback, and the data team is a consultant on retainer, showing up with context, evidence, and a suggested solution. That discipline is what makes AI safe to expose. Natural-language querying only scales when the model underneath it is governed: clean naming, one source of truth per metric, row-level security, cost controls, and lineage on every answer. I build organizations to be AI-ready by building that foundation first, so the AI layer is a feature of the platform instead of a bolt-on experiment.

I hold a BA in Russian from Brigham Young University and an MBA plus an MS in Business Intelligence & Analytics from Saint Joseph's University. Outside of work I'm an avid college football fan, amateur chef, and collector of wet-shaving gear your grandfather would recognize.

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Experience

Feb 2026 — Present

SOL Veterinary

Owner & President

Scottsdale, AZ

  • Own and operate SOL Veterinary, a full-service companion animal practice in Scottsdale, Arizona; direct every back-office function including finance, operations, HR, payroll, and technology.
  • Built the clinic’s data platform on Snowflake with dbt transformations and dlt ingestion pipelines pulling from the EzyVet practice management system, Divvy spend, and Plaid banking data.
  • Deployed Nao, a self-hosted AI analytics assistant, so the clinical team can query operations, finance, and marketing data in plain language.
  • Automated reporting end to end, including a daily financial and operational recap to leadership and automated month-end book closes.
  • Built internal admin tools (Next.js) for scheduling, inventory, and credentials, cutting manual back-office work.
  • Snowflake
  • dbt
  • dlt
  • Nao
  • Next.js

Sep 2024 — Present

PDQ

Principal Data Engineer

Remote, AZ

  • Complete ownership of the data platform: Data Ops, modeling standards, and governance.
  • Architected and executed a greenfield migration to Snowflake and Sigma, lowering platform cost by 40%.
  • Implemented an AI-ready enterprise data model to enable natural-language querying (NLQ) through proper policies and guardrails.
  • Led efforts on implementing AI through data and analytics engineering product cycles.
  • Engage vendors and manage relationships, negotiating contracts with Snowflake, Sigma, and peers.
  • Created the reporting model that operationally tracks OKRs.
  • Snowflake
  • Sigma
  • dbt
  • dlt
  • Hightouch
  • Floqer

Mar 2022 — 2024

Heap (acquired by ContentSquare)

Analytics Engineering Manager

Remote, AZ

  • Executed budget and implementation of all ETL tooling, identifying unnecessary tools and cutting annual spend by $50k.
  • Identified bottlenecks in data transformations, leading to a 60% reduction in Snowflake spend, nearly $1MM annually.
  • Refactored the legacy dbt project, cutting runtime 40% on pipelines operating over billions of records per run.
  • Architected and built a new enterprise dimensional model with full testing and documentation.
  • Designed the reporting process to automate month-close ARR reporting end to end.
  • Snowflake
  • dbt
  • dbt Cloud
  • Sigma

Jan 2021 — Mar 2022

Lendio

Senior Data Engineer

Lehi, UT

Lendio is the nation’s largest marketplace connecting SMB owners to financing, leveraging a network of 75+ banking institutions.

  • Senior team member for the warehouse integration team.
  • Responsible for all business logic driving reporting.
  • Train junior team members on BI best practices and technical skill improvement.
  • Develop source control procedures.
  • Active development on warehouse ingest, reporting layers, and viz tooling.
  • Snowflake
  • dbt
  • Looker

Apr 2020 — Jan 2021

Shutterfly

Senior Data Engineer

Tempe, AZ / Fort Mill, SC

  • Plan, scope, and conduct reporting model creation and integration of Lifetouch systems with Shutterfly consumer reporting.
  • Oversee near real-time reporting operations used on manufacturing facility floors to track all Lifetouch Yearbook production.
  • Focus on folding legacy Lifetouch data systems into Shutterfly’s operations data warehouse to provide executives and board holistic views of all brands under the SFLY INC umbrella.
  • Looker
  • DOMO
  • BigQuery

Jul 2018 — Apr 2020

Shutterfly

Senior Data Analyst

Tempe, AZ / Fort Mill, SC

  • Architect and implement processes to automate data ingest and modeling from 10+ data sources into a centralized data warehouse.
  • Write ETL scripts and procedures, cutting ingest time and file storage size by over 80% per data source.
  • Collaborate with multiple departments to bring cross-department and platform reporting to SFLY.
  • Lead team meetings and provide guidance to junior team members on data viz and reporting best practices.
  • Help team members improve performance of SQL queries by identifying and sharing efficient query plans.
  • SQL
  • Looker
  • DOMO

Aug 2015 — Jul 2018

Lendio

Head of Data Engagement

Lehi, UT

  • Produce analytics packages for board meetings and venture capital groups, leading to a $20MM Series D.
  • Identified and corrected multiple reporting errors, saving the company over $250k in expenses.
  • Drive data and reporting strategies to prospect, forecast, and launch the franchising division, named the no. 1 franchising opportunity in Financial Services by Entrepreneur in its first year, and the only first-year network in the Entrepreneur Franchise 500.
  • Aid in creating ETL scripts for warehouse migration and dimension modeling for self-hosted CRM data, driving all reporting.
  • SQL
  • ETL
  • Data Modeling

Dec 2014 — Aug 2015

SkyCentral

Associate Product Manager

Bountiful, UT

  • Manage online content marketing and content creation preparing for product launch.
  • Develop KPIs and metrics for internal use with focus on customer acquisition.
  • Oversee the development, marketing, sales, and support of a newly launched self-service IT portal.
  • Manage all overseas relationships with developers based in Eastern Europe and Indian-based QA.
  • Find and outsource contractors, building long-term relationships and processes which cut production costs by over 70%.
  • Seek new strategic partners and resellers.
  • Product
  • Analytics
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Skills

Languages & SQL

SQLPythonRSnowflake SQLBigQueryPrestoPostgresMySQLSQL ServerTeradataOracleSingleStore

Warehouse & Pipelines

SnowflakeBigQueryDuckDBdbtdltETL/ELTAirflowCI/CDGit

BI & Analytics

SigmaLookerMetabaseTableauPower BIDOMOData ModelingKPI Systems

AI & Data Governance

NLQ enablementSemantic LayersData GovernanceRow-level SecurityCost OptimizationHightouchFloqer

Operations & Languages

Offshore Team ManagementRussian (Advanced)Ukrainian (Conversant)Vendor Negotiation
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Projects

May 2020 - Present

Give 'Em Hell, Brigham

Founder

A podcast and merchandise brand focused on BYU athletics, with weekly shows covering finance, food, football, and a webstore shipping apparel to Cougar fans around the globe.

March 2021 - Present

Give 'Em Data, Brigham

Founder

A maintained Metabase instance with public sharing for college football analysis, driven by a BigQuery pipeline ingesting the CollegeFootballData.com API, 247Sports, and Sports-Reference.

June 2021 - Present

cflfastR

Creator / Author

An R library that wraps the official CFL API, bringing the Sports Dataverse tooling used by nflfastR and cfbfastR to Canadian football.

July 2018 - Present

Cougar Sports Insider

Staff Writer

The BYU affiliate of 247Sports. My editorial focus is projections and data-driven analysis around BYU football, basketball, and baseball.

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Education

2017 - 2018

MS, Business Intelligence & Analytics

Saint Joseph's University

2015 - 2017

MBA

Saint Joseph's University

2009 - 2015

BA, Russian

Brigham Young University