Azhwan Shaswar
Azhwan.
Open to consulting A decade in tech & data English · Arabic · Kurdish

Azhwan Shaswar

I turn unruly data into clear, defensible decisions for telecom networks, humanitarian organisations, and anyone drowning in spreadsheets.

Currently
  • Data Architect
  • Data Intelligence Manager
  • Data & AI Consultant
  • Trainer & Curriculum Designer
ResolvedA report no one had opened in 94 days, retired with honours. Resolved“Final_v7_FINAL2.xlsx”, replaced by a proper data model. EscalatedOne metric, three departments, three definitions; now reconciled. ResolvedA customer asked in Kurdish; the assistant replied in Kurdish. CriticalAn alarm that couldn’t explain itself; context added. EscalatedLicence costs, reduced by moving to open-source monitoring. ResolvedPaper forms in the field, replaced by offline mobile surveys.
Principles

Six convictions I won’t compromise on.

Every report must earn its audience.

A dashboard no one opens is a monument, not a tool. I begin with the decision someone must make on Monday morning and work backwards to the data.

An alarm should explain itself.

A red light without a cause, a location, or a consequence is merely noise with a colour scheme.

Governance precedes glamour.

One definition per metric, one owner per dataset, and a documented lineage; only then do the charts arrive.

Technology should speak the user’s language.

Where English, Arabic, and Kurdish share every conversation, multilingual AI is not a feature; it is the baseline.

Knowledge must outlive its author.

A system only one person understands is a liability with a login screen. I document what I build, and I teach it.

Signal over noise.

Most data is static. The craft lies in isolating what matters, and in proving that it is real.

Selected work

Where I’ve made a difference.

Organisations are left unnamed by design; the substance remains.

2022 – presentTelecommunications

Leading data intelligence for a mobile network operator

  • Rose from analyst to manager; I now lead analysts, analytics engineers, and information-systems specialists under a single governance framework.
  • Co-created an in-house operations platform that monitors the network in real time, tracks alarms and performance indicators, and alerts engineers the moment service degrades.
  • Moved heavyweight reporting onto self-hosted, open-source monitoring, giving engineers live views in place of yesterday’s exports.
  • Architected a customer-support assistant that understands English, Arabic, and Kurdish, built on a bespoke intent-recognition model and extended with retrieval-augmented, agentic AI.
  • Delivered predictive models for forecasting, anomaly detection, and automated master-data management.
Data architectureReal-time monitoringMultilingual AIForecasting
2025Academic research

An analytics engine for scholarly publishing

  • Engineered a pipeline that gathers open academic records at scale and organises more than 20,000 publications by author, institution, country, and citation.
  • Applied machine learning to classify papers and journals, and co-authored the academic manifesto that emerged from the work.
BibliometricsMachine learningData pipelines
2019 – 2021Humanitarian response

Information management where every row is a person

  • Built information-management and visualisation systems for refugee and displaced-community needs assessments.
  • Designed offline-capable mobile surveys and case-tracking workflows for field teams.
  • Developed databases and donor-ready reporting for smaller organisations.
Needs assessmentMobile data collectionReporting
2016 – 2022Finance & systems

Databases that move real money

  • Built financial and inventory applications that processed more than $50 million in transactions.
  • Designed schemas, tuned performance, and transformed manual accounting workflows into automated, web-based reporting.
Database designAutomationBusiness intelligence
Portfolio

Six public dashboards, three datasets.

Each one is live and fully interactive. I built the developer survey twice, once in Power BI and once in Tableau, so you can compare how each tool tells the same story.

Developer survey≈ 83,000 respondents; demographics, education, salaries, and company size
Power BI
Two pages

Who builds software, and what they earn

Gender and age profiles, education set against employment, developer roles by operating system, and salaries by country and company size.

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Tableau
Part one

The same survey, retold in Tableau

Demographics, employment by level of education, and occupations by operating system, with an interactive gender filter.

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Tableau
Part two

Salaries and geography

How pay varies with company size and country, alongside a world map of where respondents live.

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Streaming catalogueNetflix titles by category, year, and country of production
Tableau
Production

What Netflix makes, and when

Content categories at a glance, the dramatic surge in titles added between 2015 and 2019, and the typical length of films and series.

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Tableau
Geography

Where Netflix content comes from

A world map of production by country, filterable by films and series.

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Research output20,200 publications; authors, institutions, countries, and citations
Power BI
Five pages

A research-output explorer

Paper-level detail with filters, publication analytics, and pages devoted to collaboration between countries and authors.

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Toolkit

The instruments I work with.

Platforms, languages, and engines I have built with in production, grouped by what they do.

Skills

How brightly each skill shines.

Measured the way astronomers measure stars: the more light, the greater the mastery.

Brightest: advanced Bright: intermediate Faint: still learning

2016

The year I first stood at the front of a classroom.

Teaching

The other half of the work.

Long before network operations centres, there were classrooms: computer labs in displacement camps, curricula written from scratch, nine-month courses for young people rebuilding their futures, and data-science tutoring for undergraduates. I still train teams today, because the most durable system I can leave behind is a group of people who no longer need me.

Refugee & displaced youth Undergraduate data science Remote cohorts Curriculum design Corporate analytics teams Hardware & software maintenance
Recognition

Honours and credentials.

U.S. international scholarship2020
Country delegate, regional youth summit2018
Judge, national innovation competition2017
Certificate in supervised machine learning2023
Training in geographic information systems2021
Training in Power BI & MySQL2017
B.Sc. in Information Technology, minor in Business Management2020
Azhwan Shaswar in a black beret with a red star, an olive field jacket and a leather strap
From the heart of Goizha to the ends of the world
About

The person behind the dashboards.

I’m Azhwan Shaswar, a data architect, consultant, and trainer from Sulaimani. For more than a decade I have built systems that help organisations see clearly: first in classrooms and humanitarian field offices, then in finance, academic research, and telecommunications.

I hold a B.Sc. in Information Technology with a minor in Business Management, I work fluently across English, Arabic, and Kurdish, and I believe good data work should be as understandable as it is rigorous. The beret is optional; the conviction is not.

10+ years in tech & dataData architecture & BIApplied AITraining & curriculum design
Contact

Let’s talk.

If your data won’t cooperate, your alarms won’t explain themselves, or your team needs to learn quickly, I’d be glad to hear from you.

azhwans@protonmail.com
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