BotenAqua
Analytics engineer by day. I build data pipelines, self-host my digital
life, and write about what I learn along the way.
Privacy-first by conviction, not by checklist.
BotenBot
A Discord bot you can self-host from source or deploy with Docker - or just invite the already-hosted instance, fully active and ready to go.
View docs →Data & Analytics Engineering
Building and optimizing data pipelines with dbt and SQL. CI/CD from scratch. A model that ran in 3000s now finishes in 100.
Privacy & Self-hosting
De-Googlifying my digital life one service at a time. Homelab with Pi-hole, Jellyfin, Portainer, and a Mikrotik-managed network.
AI-augmented workflows
Using AI as a daily tool, not a buzzword. Cursor for dbt infrastructure, Gemini API for batch processing, pragmatic automation.
Learning in public
Every project and learning session becomes a blog post. Open-source, free resources, knowledge shared as it's gained.
Latest from the blog
Privacy-first analytics: how hard can it be?
Adding privacy-respecting analytics to a static site sounded simple. Two hours of reading about personal data later, I realized this is going to be a series.
Walls of code
When your daily output is SQL and YAML, showing your work to non-technical people is basically impossible. Time to change that.
Done beats perfect
The first version doesn't need to be good - it just needs to exist. Once it does, you have something real to improve instead of a plan collecting dust.