
Michael Neal
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Ex-Deloitte | Break Into Data, Analytics & AI Roles
5,630 min coached
44 followers
Studied at Chicago Booth
Worked at Centerview Partners
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Available tomorrow at 11:30 PM UTC
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Michael's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $150/hr
Get help with AI Fundamentals, Predictive Analytics, and .
Michael also coaches for Investment Banking, AI for Product Development, and AI Automation & Agents. View all.
Michael’s AI for Data & Analytics Qualifications
Experience level: Executive
Michael has helped clients get into these companies:
I’ve built data pipelines, ETL jobs, and analytics tooling across both enterprise and startup environments. At Deloitte, I worked on cloud strategy and data infrastructure projects, and I’ve also helped startups and small businesses stand up ETL workflows, automate reporting, and build custom tools to make their data usable. My technical work spans clustering, NLP, LLM API-driven analysis, cloud architecture, and data storage systems, with additional training in discrete math and algorithms. I also bring a broader strategic lens than most technical coaches. I’ve worked with Palantir as a client and have done extensive analysis across the data infrastructure landscape, including companies like Snowflake and Datadog and transactions involving businesses like Scale AI. That lets me help clients at both levels: the granular technical detail of how data and AI systems actually work, and the higher-level strategic understanding of why these systems matter and how to communicate that value. Whether you’re trying to break into data and AI, sharpen your technical foundation, or better position your experience, I can help.
Michael can help with:
AI Fundamentals
Predictive Analytics
Data Cleaning & Prep
Data Strategy
Data Pipeline Automation
Dashboard Creation
Natural Language Querying
AI Model Evaluation
Data Visualization
AI Automation
Freelancing
Reporting & Insights
Michael also coaches for Investment Banking, AI for Product Development, and AI Automation & Agents. View all.
About Michael
I walked out of my Centerview superday knowing I had the offer — not because I was the smartest candidate, but because I had figured out what actually mattered in the room. That became the foundation for everything I've built since. I led UChicago's Investment Banking Group as Technical Lead and helped dozens of candidates land offers before founding OFFERGOBLIN, the adaptive prep platform with 5,000+ verified interview questions from every major bank. I wrote the industry's open-access textbook on IB technicals. My full-time job — my only job — is figuring out what gets people offers and building systems around it.
Why do I coach?
Most coaches fit sessions in between deal work or their day job. This is all I do. No busy season. No distractions. I've seen every failure mode, I know exactly where the bar is, and my only focus is getting you over it.
Work Experience
Summer Associate
Centerview Partners
June 2025 - August 2025
Technology Group

Consultant
Deloitte
November 2020 - September 2024
Cloud Strategy / Tech coverage
Head Teaching Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
August 2018 - August 2020
Operations engineer
KATERRA
May 2019 - August 2019
Education

Chicago Booth
MBA & MS CS
2024 - 2026
Activities and societies: Investment Banking Group — Technical Lead; Quantum @ Booth — Founder
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS + MS, Civil Engineering
2016 - 2020
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Michael has helped clients get into these companies: