Hello, I'm

Daniil Grachev

AI-Native Head of Analytics &
Decision Systems Leader

Designing AI-assisted decision-making systems that scale product & growth—with strong metric governance, experimental rigor, and human-in-the-loop validation.


class AINativeDecisionSystem:
    def __init__(self):
        self.role = "Head of Analytics"
        self.orchestration = ["GenAI Agents", "dbt", "BigQuery"]
        self.guardrails = ["Metric Governance", "Causality", "Human Review"]

    def run_decision_flow(self, user_queries):
        # AI automates 80% of routine SQL, EDA & visualization
        draft_insights = self.ai.generate_insights(user_queries)
        # Humans validate business context, attribution, and causality
        validated = [self.verify_causality(insight) for insight in draft_insights]
        return self.maximize_business_impact(validated)
                    

About Me

I am an AI-Native Head of Analytics with over 10 years of experience bridging product, growth, and data engineering. I help organizations move from static, reactive reporting to dynamic, AI-assisted decision systems.

I believe that SQL and Python are accelerators, not differentiators. My focus is on building metric governance frameworks, designing rigorous experiments, validating causality, and establishing human-in-the-loop guardrails so businesses can make decisions they can actually trust.

AI-Native

Decision Workflows

Governance

& Metric Trust

Causality

Over Correlation

Core Competencies

AI & Analytics Orchestration

GenAI Workflows AI-assisted SQL/Python Prompt Engineering for BI Custom AI Analytics Tools Process Automation

Governance & Causality

Metric Governance A/B Testing & Experimentation Causality Analysis Attribution Logic Traffic Signal Validation

Data & BI Architecture

dbt BigQuery PostgreSQL Airflow Event Tracking (Mixpanel, Segment) BI (Tableau, Looker, Metabase)

Product & Growth Strategy

Growth Analytics LTV & Cohort Retention Modeling Stakeholder Translation Analytics Roadmap Design English (Fluent)

Experience

Nov 2022 - Present

AI-Native Analytics Consultant

Self-Employed / Various Clients

Architecting self-serve analytics and AI-enabled decision workflows. Designed end-to-end metric governance and tracking for Tango (500M MAU live streaming app), establishing rigorous data guardrails. Optimized conversion pipelines for EdTech platform Relocate, increasing onboarding conversion by 30%.

Jul 2021 - Nov 2022

Staff Product Analyst - Advertising

VK

Led growth analytics for EMEA's largest streaming platform (<50M MAU). Re-engineered attribution logic and traffic signal validation to isolate true ad effectiveness, reducing client churn by 20% and preventing false optimization triggers from noisy data signals.

Feb 2020 - Jun 2021

Marketing Analyst Team Lead

Yango (Yandex Mediaservices)

Orchestrated growth and experimentation frameworks for 30M+ users. Boosted promo ROI by 30% via unified tracking. Re-designed CPA partner validation systems using fraud-prevention mechanics, scaling network conversions by 300% without quality degradation.

Sep 2015 - Apr 2020

Senior Data Analyst

OMD

Built B2B SaaS analytical products for the world's largest media network, doubling department revenue in 6 months. Translated complex business logic into automated prediction models, including a key demand forecasting product for global pharmaceutical clients.

Key Projects

EdTech Decision-Driven Growth

Designed a comprehensive conversion tracking ecosystem using Mixpanel and Segment. Transitioned the team from static metric reviews to continuous experiment pipelines, driving a 30% onboarding uplift.

Mixpanel Segment Experimentation

Tango Decision & Governance Layer

Established core data models and metric governance rules for 500M MAU. Designed decision guardrails that verified signal reliability, boosting paid users by 12% via trusted, self-serve growth insights.

Data Governance Decision Guardrails BI Architecture

Predictive Demand SaaS

Created a pharmaceutical demand prediction product from scratch. Translated complex epidemiological data signals into actionable procurement forecasts, successfully adopted nationwide.

Predictive Modeling Product Design System Architecture

Get In Touch

Open to consulting opportunities and AI-native analytics leadership roles.