Hello, I am Saidul Alam Rahat
I turn raw data into self-service platforms — building the analytics systems behind a global prop-trading firm, so teams get answers without waiting on a person.
"I may lose everything tomorrow — but what better thing can I do than keep trying!"
I'm Saidul Alam Rahat — Manager I, Business Intelligence at FundedNext, one of the world's fastest-growing prop trading firms. I lead the BI team: setting the roadmap, architecting the stack, and moving the function from reactive reporting to proactive, insight-led decision support.
My path wasn't typical. I studied HRM, pivoted through business development, and found my thing in data — specifically the part where you take an ambiguous question like "why did revenue drop?" and turn it into a clear, visual answer that changes how people act. I built the self-service tools first as an individual contributor, then got asked to lead the team building them.
Along the way: cut ad-hoc data requests by 80%, reduced reporting cycle time by 30%, and ran a retention analysis across 581,000 users that surfaced hidden behavioral segments with significant estimated impact (specific figures are confidential; numbers shown in case studies are illustrative reconstructions, not actual disclosed values). Recognized as a "data visualization maestro" by NEXT Ventures with the Invent & Simplify award.
Every request starts with a business question, not a query. From alignment through discovery, definition, and build, nothing ships unless it's tied to a metric that matters.
Trace the request back to the business question it's really asking. Half of "can you pull this number" turns out to be a different question once you ask why it's needed.
Find where the data actually lives, how clean it is, and who else has tried to answer this question before — and how they defined their terms.
Write down the metric definition before writing the query. If two teams would calculate this differently, that gets resolved now, not after the dashboard ships.
Cross-functional coordination, sprint management, and clear tradeoff decisions that keep the team aligned and shipping fast.
Analytics reviews, retrospectives, and continuous product evolution driven by real user data and outcomes.
Leading the Business Intelligence team at FundedNext, a live global prop-trading platform — owning the BI roadmap, stack architecture, and AI-augmented analytics practice across the org.
Built the self-service analytics layer for FundedNext's trading platform — dashboards, automated alerting, and a retention framework that identified previously hidden high-value behavioral segments.
Supported BI delivery across departmental teams — dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, and data quality — as the platform scaled.
Supported HR strategy and employer branding for Walton Hi-Tech Industries, one of Bangladesh's largest manufacturers.
Facilitated a data-driven capstone project for an 8-member team in BYLC's ICT Career Bootcamp.
A self-service analytics dashboard that replaced ad-hoc SQL queries for a prop trading firm. 6 purpose-built pages covering core metrics, breach analysis, customer flow tracking, retention taxonomy, business knowledge base, and product update timelines. Automated email alerts catch anomalies before they escalate.
Automated Twitter/X monitoring system that tracks 216 competitor accounts with AI-powered sentiment analysis. Delivers real-time competitive intelligence alerts to Discord with structured storage in SQLite.
Three contributions at a global prop-trading platform: a behavioral lifecycle framework that decoded 87% retention into 10 behaviors, a churn model that recovered $8.3M in overlooked reactivation, and FNHunt — a conversion idea hidden inside the FAQ.
Recognized by NEXT Ventures as a "data visualization maestro" for significantly amplifying data-driven decisions, fueling revenue growth and abuser detection, while propelling cross-functional data visibility.
Promoted to Sr. Executive, Business Intelligence (formerly Business Development — team renamed) at NEXT Ventures. Signed by the CSO and CEO for contribution towards making NEXT Ventures what it is today.
Top 100 out of 16,000 participants in the C-Factor Gamification round.
Top 50 out of 300 in an Inter-University MS Excel competition.
Assisted in script evaluation for the BYLC Youth Leadership Summit 2021; communicated with an average of 50 stakeholders weekly.
16-week program (Bangladesh Technical Education Board) covering MS Office and web design — HTML5, CSS3, basic JavaScript, Bootstrap.
4-week program; coordinated a group of 11 members on a capstone project.
SQL
Python
Power BI
Looker Studio
Metabase
Google Sheets
PostgreSQL
R
Git