Aaron
Agre

BI Manager · Jazz Guitarist

Noise

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Jazz Guitar

Musician, composer, audio engineer. Contemporary American guitar: jazz, gospel, rock.

Since 2007

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Grace Street Coffee

Co-founder and GM. A decade in hospitality in DC.

Washington, DC

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Startups

2020 pivot into GTM analytics and data engineering for early-stage fintech.

2020 →

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Today

BI Manager at Sydecar.io. Private markets automation: modeling, dashboards, the whole stack.

Sydecar.io

Guitarist and composer in Nashville. Playing contemporary American music. Day job: building the data layer at Sydecar.io for private markets. Previously, ten years running coffee shops in DC.

Nashville, TN · 2026

Stormglass on BandcampGrace Street CoffeeSydecar

Signal

An empirical study of
“Can You Pull This Real Quick?”

Confusion-Adjusted Engineering Time

6.5
3 hrspredicted time
'Quick question'Somehow this needs a new model.
How confused everyone is →Time I spend on it →

Built with equal parts: SQL, duct tape, and vibes.

By the numbers

0QueriesSQL queries run
0Slack pingsbefore 10am
0Quick questionsestimated
0Experiments shippedthis quarter
0Manual processesremaining
0hHours savedthis week
0%BI Trust Scoreup from 71%
Sanity30-day trend

Snowflake + duct tape + vibes

Pipeline Playground

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ExtractTransformTestServeQuery
RAWELTSTGDBTTESTSDWHBIOPSCSVAI

If it breaks, it's either 'a one-line fix' or 'a metrics layer discussion'. There is no middle.

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