Connor Herring
Independent data and analytics consultant. I help private-capital firms build the data platform, the pipelines and the small internal apps their teams use every day.
Ten years in, I've been an analyst, a firm's director of data, and a solutions architect at a software company. I now take on a small number of fractional and project engagements.
What I do
- Fractional data leadOwn the data platform and its roadmap part-time, working alongside your team.
- Pipelines and systems of recordCollection pipelines and data models in Databricks, Snowflake or Azure that finance can rely on.
- Small custom appsReplace a vendor tool or a spreadsheet with an app built around how your team works.
- AI-assisted development, with reviewSet up the workflow and guardrails so AI writes more of the code and a person still reviews every change.
Selected work
- 400%
Rebuilt an Excel vendor survey as a custom Azure app. Engagement went up 400%.Private equity firm · 2026
- Jun 2026
Designed and shipped a financial collection pipeline that has been the system of record since the June 2026 cycle. Led the retirement of the legacy portfolio-monitoring vendor.Private equity firm · 2026
- 150%
Standardized requirements, QA and release workflows while the customer base grew 150% in eight months.Lumonic · 2025–2026
- $4M
Item-level demand forecasts for a manufacturer's spare parts cut total carrying cost by $4 million.Koch Industries · 2017–2019
Background
Before going independent I was a solutions architect at Lumonic, working with BDCs, debt funds and private equity firms. Before that I spent six years at Plexus Capital, first as a business intelligence analyst and then as director of data, and three years as an analyst at Koch Industries. BA in Economics and Peace, War & Defense from UNC Chapel Hill.
Contact
Email is the best way to reach me: ccherring621@gmail.com
LinkedIn GitHub (link to come)