About This Project
The Idea
I am Salih Ugur Kimilli, a data engineer who loves turning raw data into insights. I wanted to build a real end-to-end data engineering project using only free, open-source tools — no vendor lock-in, no cloud bills. Around the same time, I had recently moved to Denmark and realised I knew very little about Danish football.
The two things clicked together: why not build an analytics product for Superligaen, the Danish Premier Football League? Something I could actually use myself, and that anyone curious about Danish football could benefit from too.
That's how this project was born.
What Was Built
A fully automated data pipeline that:
- Ingests live match data from api-football.com into a MotherDuck cloud data warehouse
- Transforms raw JSON through Bronze → Silver → Gold layers using dbt
- Serves analytics via this Evidence.dev dashboard, deployed on Vercel
- Runs nightly via GitHub Actions
The Full Journey
The complete story — every decision, every mistake, every fix — is documented in the blog:
Support This Project
This dashboard is free to use and updated every day. If you find it useful, consider buying me a coffee.
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