Noblesville, IN

Ian Paul Zelgowski, MBA

Lead Senior Financial Analyst Healthcare finance leader, automation builder, and systems operator

Finance by profession, builder by temperament. I like taking complicated systems — budgets, operations, infrastructure, automation, even family finances — and making them understandable, reliable, and actually useful.

Dual citizen · American & Polish

See what I've built Career highlights

Current Focus

Healthcare finance + automation

Lives In

Noblesville, IN

Greater Indianapolis Area

// About

Who I am

I'm a finance operator with a builder's brain. My day job lives in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis, but I get most energized when I can turn messy systems into something clearer, faster, and more useful.

Most of my professional work has lived in healthcare, banking, and government — environments where details matter, process matters, and bad assumptions get expensive fast. That tends to make you practical, analytical, and pretty hard to impress with buzzwords.

Outside of work, I build the tools I wish already existed: financial dashboards, automation workflows, homelab infrastructure, smart-home systems, and scripts that solve annoyingly specific problems well enough to become permanent fixtures.

I'm based in the Indianapolis area, and when I'm not buried in data or infrastructure, I'm usually tinkering with hardware, self-hosted services, or some new AI workflow that seemed like a good idea at the time.

The short version:

I like useful systems, honest data, and tools that pull their own weight.

10+

Years in finance across healthcare, government, and banking

Degrees: an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor's in Marketing from Penn State University

60+

Docker containers running on the homelab

∞

Projects created because off-the-shelf tools annoyed me

// Skills

What I do well

A mix of financial discipline, operational thinking, and technical curiosity — which is a polite way of saying I automate things when they annoy me.

Financial Analysis & Budgeting

Multi-million dollar budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and turning executive-level ambiguity into something measurable and actionable.

Financial AnalysisBudgetingHealthcare FinanceBusiness Intelligence

Healthcare Finance

Revenue cycle analysis, financial operations, audit-minded thinking, and process improvement inside highly regulated environments.

Revenue CycleForecastingComplianceBusiness Intelligence

Automation & Python

I build scripts and dashboards that earn their keep: financial modeling, data extraction, task automation, and tools that quietly remove repetitive work.

PythonFlaskAPIsAutomation

Homelab & Self-Hosting

Unraid, Docker, networking, service orchestration, and the general principle that if a service matters, I'd rather own the stack.

UnraidDockerLinuxTailscale

Smart Home Systems

Home Assistant, ESPHome, Zigbee, energy monitoring, and practical household automation that solves real problems instead of showing off.

Home AssistantESPHomeZigbeeEnergy Data

AI & Agentic Tools

Hands-on work with OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Cowork, and Gemini — building persistent AI memory, model routing, and automation workflows that treat LLMs as tools rather than novelties.

OpenClawHermesClaudeGeminiAgents

// Projects

Things I've built

Mostly personal tools, infrastructure, and experiments that started with: there has to be a better way to do this.

Personal Finance Dashboard

Live

Custom Flask dashboard pulling live Monarch data with Monte Carlo success rates, scenario save/load, phased spending, and one-time expense planning. More useful than generic calculators because it actually knows the portfolio.

OpenClaw AI Stack

Live

Persistent AI assistant with memory, heartbeats, cron jobs, model fallback chains, Discord delivery, and custom tools. Equal parts assistant, lab rat, and force multiplier.

Unraid Homelab

Live

Host running 60+ containers for media, security, development, smart-home integrations, and internal tooling. If it can live on my hardware, I usually make it.

Smart Home Energy Monitoring

Live

Real-time utility monitoring with AMR2MQTT, Home Assistant dashboards, gas/electric cost visibility, and energy-aware automation.

Personal Site Build Pipeline

Live

A structured, repeatable system for building and maintaining polished personal websites. Content, copy, and assets go in; a clean, deployable site comes out — without rebuilding from scratch every time something changes.

Retro Hardware Restoration

Ongoing

Old consoles, neglected electronics, and the kind of restoration work that rewards patience, parts bins, and stubbornness.

// Experience

Career highlights

The professional through-line: finance, analysis, operations, and making complicated things behave.

Experience

Indiana University Health

Lead Senior Financial Analyst

2024–Present

Leads budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning work in revenue cycle operations, translating complex financial data into decisions leadership can actually use.

City of Noblesville

Deputy Financial Officer / Budget & Financial Analyst

2022–2024

Directed municipal budget planning and compliance across 24 departments, strengthening financial discipline, transparency, and executive reporting for a $116M annual budget.

Indiana University Health

Business Analyst → Senior Business Analyst

2017–2022

Improved revenue cycle performance through audit, process improvement, and revenue-protection work, identifying savings opportunities and helping reduce operational risk.

Busey

Treasury Operations Cash Management Specialist → Risk Management Analyst

2013–2017

Built early depth in treasury operations, commercial banking, and enterprise risk management, with a strong foundation in controls, reporting, and regulated financial environments.