Sayle Matthews
Senior Cloud Architect III
The BigQuery Dude
Solutions architect specializing in BigQuery and Google Cloud — warehouse design, query tuning, and data pipelines that scale without breaking budgets. Off the clock: PCB design, house projects, and motorcycle trips.
- BigQuery
- Google Cloud
My Certifications
AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty
AWS (last renewed/obtained: Jun 28, 2023)
Google Cloud Authorized Trainer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Apr 23, 2021)
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Google (last renewed/obtained: May 6, 2026)
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Aug 29, 2024)
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Sep 12, 2025)
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Mar 17, 2025)
Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
Google (last renewed/obtained: Aug 29, 2024)
What my customers say
I submitted a request for some BigQuery / Billing support late yesterday and Sayle made an initial response very quickly and we had an exchange to run one test and he was able to narrow down the problem domain successfully. He then engaged with his team and I now have a working solution in place in less than 24 hours. Great Support.
sourcebreaker.com · May 2026
What I'm writing
Upgrading Your Database to an Iceberg Data Lake (Part 1)
Replicating a database to Iceberg
Replicating BigQuery Data to Another Data Warehouse
How to use Continuous Queries to Perform CDC from BigQuery
Utilizing ClickHouse to Reduce Costs from Your BigQuery and Looker Usage Part 2
Reduce your Looker and BigQuery Costs by Utilizing Clickhouse to “cache” your data
What I've open-sourced
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doitintl/google-next-2026-bigquery-finops-session
Code samples and examples shown during Google Next - Take control of your BigQuery costs: From Black Box to FinOps
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doitintl/bigquery-optimization-queries
Queries to assist with BigQuery cost and performance
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sayle-doit/gist: 60c515f
Compare BigQuery job costs when running a job on either BigQuery Editions with the autoscaler or on-demand with both new and old pricing models.
Webinars I've hosted
Demystifying the BigQuery Autoscaler
Migrating from Expiring BigQuery Flat-Rate Commitments to Editions
Customers I've helped
K Health Saves Hundreds of Thousands on BigQuery
“The scope of what we're trying to do is very ambitious, and we're moving fast. On this journey, DoiT opens up opportunities we wouldn't have discovered otherwise, and then helps us actually realize these opportunities with the right technologies. It's been a superb experience so far, and we're excited to get even more out of our partnership in the future.”
— Israel Roth, CTO and Co-Founder, K Health
Playgendary Cuts BigQuery Costs by 50%
“BigQuery is a critical component of our cloud infrastructure, but understanding how we could use it more optimally was difficult. Without BigQuery Lens, I wouldn't have been able to achieve any significant results around cost optimization. The easy-to-use drill down into my team's BigQuery usage and personalized recommendations made optimizing how we use it really easy.”
— Mikhail Artyugin, Director of Business Intelligence, Playgendary
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