John Ratté

John has spent the last 20 years building data and analytics solutions, including some of the most elaborate data visualizations ever exported to Excel.

With a new focus on AI-centric development to deliver a wider range of custom solutions, he currently resides and works in New Orleans, continuing his search for truth, happiness, and a po-boy restaurant that is open on Mondays.

He first learned he could make a living with SQL queries in 2006, when a Seattle-based consulting firm hired him to build SSIS packages, SSAS cubes, and SSRS reports. All of these tools now seem like the punchcards the first computer ran on, but they’re all still alive and working today.

Over the next 20 years, he moved through almost every industry imaginable: healthcare, automotive, aerospace, food and beverage, financial services, government services, and he’s 99% sure one of his clients was actively involved in the adult film industry so he’s counting that one too.