Senior data engineers for funded startups

We build your data stack.
Then we hand it over.

Faro Data designs, builds, and documents the full data function for early-stage startups — so your team can own it without us.

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Sound familiar?

These are the signs.

If any of these come up in your weekly standups, you're ready for us.

Only the engineering team can pull data

Each team has different numbers for the same metric

We track events after launching features, not before

We're paying too much for Mixpanel and getting less insight

We want to do ML/AI but our data is a mess

We need to hire a data person but don't know what role

What we do

The full data stack, or the part you need.

We scope every engagement around what you actually need at your stage — not what you'll need in three years.

Data Strategy & Advisory

Define the metrics framework, architecture, and tooling decisions before writing a single line of code. One source of truth starts here.

Founders who know they need data but don't know where to start

Data Infrastructure Build

Cloud setup to production-grade warehouse. Pipelines, event tracking, data source unification, monitoring. Your engineers stop writing manual SQL.

Startups scaling faster than their current data setup

BI & Reporting

Dashboards the whole company actually uses. Investor reporting, funnel analysis, attribution — built on the foundation, not on top of Sheets.

Marketing and finance teams still living in spreadsheets

ML & AI-Ready Infrastructure

Feature stores, model productionalization, vector pipelines, LLM tooling. We build the data foundation that makes AI features possible.

Startups that want to ship AI but their data is a mess

Team Building & Handoff

We define the role, screen candidates, and onboard the person who takes over. Every engagement ends with your team owning the stack.

Every client — this is how engagements end

The model

We build it. We document it. We leave.

Engagements run 3–6 months. We're temporary by design. Our success is measured by how little you need us once we're done.

Assess & scope

We start with a data maturity assessment — your current stack, your growth stage, the metrics your board actually asks for. We scope the right work, not the maximum work.

Build & ship

We build at startup speed. Pipelines in production, dashboards your team uses, reporting that passes due diligence. No prototypes, no handwavy architectures.

Document & hand off

We write the runbooks, help you hire the data engineer, and onboard them properly. Then we're done. That's the goal — not a retainer you didn't ask for.

The team

Small team. Senior people.

Data without finance context is guesswork. We cover both.

Adrian Marruedo

Founder & Partner · Data Infrastructure

Prague · Remote

Data engineer and strategist. Built data infrastructure from zero at multiple funded startups across Europe — first pipeline through Series A reporting. Founded Faro Data to give early-stage companies access to senior data expertise without the full-time hire.

Data infrastructure Pipelines & warehousing BI & reporting AI-ready stacks

Tjark Block

Partner · Finance & Operations

Prague · Remote · DACH

Finance & Operations Advisor with 5+ years working with e-commerce and SaaS founders across DACH. Trained as a Steuerfachangestellter (accounting-trained), co-founded an Amazon FBA business. Covers financial clarity, operational restructuring, and DD support — the numbers side when data and finance need to move together.

Financial clarity E-commerce SaaS metrics Operational finance DD & transaction support

Selected work

Data foundations, built to hand off.

Every engagement here ended with the client owning the stack.

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Goin

Series A · Consumer fintech · Spain

Employee #1 AWS + GCP ML in production

Built Goin's entire data function from zero through their Series A.

Joined as employee #1 and stood up the full data stack — pipelines, warehouse, BI, and ML in production for churn — alongside the reporting that supported the Series A round.

25→6 min

Time-to-first-response

+3pp

Funnel conversion

Series A

Due diligence passed

"Adrian was employee #1 at Goin and built our entire data function solo — strategy, pipelines, BI, ML, the lot. One of the most multi-disciplinary people I've ever worked with. Our investors kept bringing up the reporting as a reason they backed us." — David Riudor, Founder & CEO, Goin

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Goodwall

Series A · Social platform · Switzerland

Unified their analytics and cut the tooling bill nearly in half.

Fractional Head of Data BigQuery

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Consortia Manager

Bootstrapped · B2B SaaS · Denmark

Shipped a new analytics product inside a profitable B2B platform.

Data product AWS + Redshift

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