The majority of the work I have done over the past 2 years, and which I still do the most, is the engineering in data. Translating insights from raw data is vital for data departments to work. In this line of work I clean, manipulate and adjust data, to create metrics, scores and models. That’s what I have been doing for a long time and this is where we meet football knowledge and data knowledge, to create one common football language. In data and video.
To do this work at the right level, you need to know your data sources and know them well. I have hands-on experience working with some of the leading providers in the industry: Wyscout, Opta, StatsBomb, Impect, SkillCorner and Catapult. Each provider speaks a different dialect, and knowing how to work across all of them is what allows me to build something consistent and reliable on top of them.
This covers the full spectrum of data types available in modern football. From aggregated event data, the bread and butter of performance analysis, to positional and tracking data that captures movement across the entire pitch every second of the game. With GPS and physical load data through tools like Catapult, the work extends into the training environment as well, connecting match performance with what happens on the grass every day.
The data itself is only part of the story. What matters is what you build with it and how you deliver it. Depending on the need, I work across the full pipeline, from raw ingestion and transformation in Python, R, Julia, Rust and SQL, to building dashboards and reporting layers in Tableau, Power BI and Streamlit. That means I can handle the heavy lifting in the back end and still deliver something clean, visual and usable on the front end, whether that is for analysts, coaches or technical directors who need information they can act on quickly.
Working across these layers means I can connect the physical, tactical and technical dimensions of the game into a single framework and translate all of it into metrics and models that actually mean something to the people using them.