Hi, I’mAranda.
I’m interested in how data and technology can solve practical problems and improve the way people work.
I’m currently a Treasury Analyst at Vista. My background is in finance, where I’ve built forecasting models, automated reporting and translated business needs into technical requirements.
Alongside this, I’m building GradPlan, a platform helping students and early-career professionals navigate their job search.
In finance
I’ve worked across teams to understand different priorities, coordinate decisions and communicate complex information clearly to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
Building GradPlan
I lead the process from understanding user needs and defining requirements to prioritising features, hands-on development and testing—balancing user value with technical feasibility and refining the experience through feedback.
My main case study
Building GradPlan.
How I’m developing a job-search platform: defining the problem, choosing what to build, working through implementation and deciding what evidence a change needs.
Explore my contribution and the work
Making CV creation useful without making AI mandatory
Separate dependable document creation from optional suggestions, and judge the result by the document someone can actually use.
LiveRead the reasoning 02 / Decision storyHelping applicants decide what to do next
Make the next useful action understandable, instead of treating the amount of information shown as the measure of progress.
LiveRead the reasoning 03 / Decision storyTreating document handling as a trust problem
Decide what evidence is necessary before asking someone to trust a document workflow, and keep release status distinct from a code change.
Reported readiness decisionRead the reasoningSelected work
A few things I’ve worked on.
A little context, the part I played,
and what I took from the experience.
In my toolkit
Data, systems
and a bit of building.
My work spans Power BI, Tableau, SQL and Python for analysis and visualisation, alongside Anaplan, Jira and hands-on web development.
I’m interested in what happens before and after the dashboard: the source data, the requirements and the decision it helps someone make.
Where I’ve used themWhat interests me
Connecting the dots.
The work I’m drawn to doesn’t stop at the final report. I’m interested in how the information gets there, what people need from it, and how the process could work better.
Building GradPlan has given me a place to explore that interest first-hand. I’m especially drawn to the intersection of product, data and technology, and to how financial technology (fintech) can connect business needs with useful technical solutions.
How I approach a problem