Community spotlight
The dbt Community is where analytics engineering lives and grows, and you're a part of it! Every quarter we'll be highlighting community members in the dbt Community Spotlight. These are individuals who have gone above and beyond to contribute to the community in a variety of ways. We all see you. We appreciate you. You are awesome.
Christophe Oudar
I joined the dbt Community in November 2021 after exchanging some issues in Github. I currently work as a staff engineer at a scaleup in the ad tech industry called Teads, which I joined 11 years ago as a new grad. I've been using dbt Core on BigQuery since then. I write about data engineering bo...
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Ruth Onyekwe
I've been working in the world of Data Analytics for over 5 years and have been part of the dbt community for the last 4. With a background in International Business and Digital Marketing, I experienced first hand the need for reliable data to fuel business decisions. This inspired a career move ...
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The Original dbt-athena Maintainers
The original dbt-athena Maintainers is a group of 5 people—Jérémy Guiselin, Mattia, Jesse Dobbelaere, Serhii Dimchenko, and Nicola Corda—who met via dbt Slack in the #db-athena channel, with the aim to make make dbt-athena a production-ready adapter. In the first periods, Winter 2022 and Spring 202...
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Mike Stanley
I've split my time between financial services and the video games industry. Back when I wrote code every day, I worked in marketing analytics and marketing technology. I've been in the dbt community for about two years. I haven't authored any extensions to dbt's adapters yet but I've given feedba...
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Meagan Palmer
I first started using dbt in 2016 or 2017 (I can't remember exactly). Since then, I have moved into data and analytics consulting and have dipped in and out of the dbt Community. Late last year, I started leading dbt Cloud training courses and spending more time in the dbt Slack. In consulting,...
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Bruno de Lima
Hey all! I was born and raised in Florianopolis, Brazil, and I'm a Senior Data Engineer at phData. I live with my fiancée and I enjoy music, photography, and powerlifting. I started my career in early 2022 at Indicium as an Analytics Engineer, working with dbt from day 1. By 2023, my path took a...
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Opeyemi Fabiyi
I’m an Analytics Engineer with Data Culture, a Data Consulting firm where I use dbt regularly to help clients build quality-tested data assets. Before Data Culture, I worked at Cowrywise, one of the leading Fintech companies in Nigeria, where I was a solo data team member, and that was my first ...
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Jenna Jordan
I am a Senior Data Management Consultant with Analytics8, where I advise clients on dbt best practices (especially regarding dbt Mesh and the various shifts in governance and strategy that come with it). My experiences working within a dbt Mesh architecture and all of the difficulties organizatio...
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Mikko Sulonen
I've been working with data since 2016. I first started with the on-prem SQL Server S-stack of SSIS, SSAS, SSRS. I did some QlikView and Qlik Sense, and some Power BI. Nowadays, I work mostly with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, and dbt, of course. While tools and languages have come and gone, SQL ...
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Radovan Bacovic
My professional journey and friendship with data started 20 years ago. I've experienced many tools and modalities: from good old RDMS systems and various programming languages like Java and C# in the early days of my career, through private clouds, to MPP databases and multitier architecture. I a...
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Johann de Wet
I'm forever indebted to my manager, John Pienaar, who introduced me to both dbt and it's community when I joined his team as an Analytics Engineer at the start of 2022. I often joke about my career before dbt and after dbt. Our stack includes Fivetran, Segment, Airflow and BigQuery to name a few....
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Tyler Rouze
My journey in data started all the way back in college where I studied Industrial Engineering. One of the core topics you learn in this program is mathematical optimization, where we often use data files as inputs to model constraints on these kinds of problems! Since then, I've been a data analy...
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Juan Manuel Perafan
Born and raised in Colombia! Living in the Netherlands since 2011. I've been working in the realm of analytics since 2017, focusing on Analytics Engineering, dbt, SQL, data governance, and business intelligence (BI). Besides consultancy work, I am very active in the data community. I co-authore...
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Mariah Rogers
I got my start in the data world helping create a new major and minor in Data Science at my alma mater. I then became a data engineer, learned a ton, and propelled myself into the clean energy sector. Now I do data things at a clean energy company and geek out on solar energy at work and at home!...
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Yasuhisa Yoshida
I currently work as a data engineer at a startup called 10X. Specifically, I work with BigQuery to provide data marts for business users. Before using dbt, the queries for creating data marts were overly complex and lengthy, resulting in low data quality. With dbt, we have improved our proces...
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Safiyy Momen
I've been in the dbt community for ~4 years now. My experience is primarily in leading data teams, previously at a healthcare startup where I migrated the stack. The dbt Community was invaluable during that time. More recently I've built a product, Aero, that helps Snowflake users optimize costs ...
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Josh Devlin
Josh Devlin has a rich history of community involvement and technical expertise in both the dbt and wider analytics communities. Discovering dbt in early 2020, he quickly became an integral member of its community, leveraging the platform as a learning tool and aiding others along their dbt journe...
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Sydney Burns
In 2019, I started as an analytics intern at a healthcare tech startup. I learned about dbt in 2020 and joined the community to self-teach. The following year, I started using dbt professionally as a consultant, and was able to pick up various parts of the stack and dive into different implementations. That experience empowered me to strike a better balance between "best practices" and what suits a specific team best. I also spoke at Coalesce 2022, a highlight of my career! Now, I collaborate with other data professionals at Webflow, where focused on enhancing and scaling our data operations. I strive to share the same enthusias...
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Dakota Kelley
For the last ~2 years I've worked at phData. Before that I spent 8 years working as a Software Developer in the public sector. Currently I'm a Solution Architect, helping our customers and clients implement dbt on Snowflake, working across multiple cloud providers. I first started reading about ...
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Alison Stanton
I started programming 20+ years ago. I moved from web applications into transforming data and business intelligence reporting because it's both hard and useful. The majority of my career has been in engineering for SaaS companies. For my last few positions I've been brought in to transition large...
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Karen Hsieh
I’m a Product Manager who builds company-wide data literacy and empowers the product team to create values for people and grow the company. Utilizing dbt, I replaced time-consuming spreadsheets by creating key business metric dashboards that improved data literacy, enabling conversations about p...
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Sam Debruyn
I have a background of about 10 years in software engineering and moved to data engineering in 2020. Today, I lead dataroots's data & cloud unit on a technical level, allowing me to share knowledge and help multiple teams and customers, while still being hands-on every day. In 2021 and 2022, I di...
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Oliver Cramer
When I joined Aquila Capital in early 2022, I had the ModernDataStack with SqlDBM, dbt & Snowflake available. During the first half year I joined the dbt community. I have been working in the business intelligence field for many years. In 2006 I founded the first TDWI Roudtable in the DACH region...
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Stacy Lo
I began my career as a data analyst, then transitioned to a few different roles in data and software development. Analytics Engineer is the best title to describe my expertise in data. I’ve been in the dbt Community for almost a year. In April, I shared my experience adopting dbt at the Taipei dbt Meetup,...
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Jing Yu Lim
For ~3 years, I was a Product Analyst at Grab, a ride-hailing and food delivery app in Southeast Asia, before taking on an Analytics Engineering role in Spenmo, a B2B Fintech startup. I joined a tech company as an analyst in June 2023, but was recently impacted by a layoff. I'm also one of the co...
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Alan Cruickshank
I've been around in the dbt community, especially the London dbt Meetup, since early 2019—around the time that we started using dbt at tails.com. My background is the startup/scaleup space and building data teams in a context where there is a lot of growth going on but there isn't a lot of money around to support that. That's a topic that I've written and spoken about on several occasions on podcasts, blogposts and even at Coalesce 2020 and 2021! Aside from my work at tails.com, my other main focus at the moment is SQLFluff, the open source SQL linter which I started developing as p...
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Faith Lierheimer
I've been a dbt Community member for around a year and a half. I come to the data world from teaching and academic research. Working in data fuses the aspects of those careers that I like the most, which are technical problem solving, and helping non-technical audiences understand data and what t...
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Owen Prough
Well met, data adventurer! My professional data history is mostly USA healthcare-related (shout out to ANSI X12 claim files) while working with large (10k+ employee) software companies and small (but growing!) startups. My constant companion for the last decade has been SQL of various flavors https://xkcd.com/927/...
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Shinya Takimoto
I have about 3 years of dbt experience. I used to be in a large organization where the challenge was to create a quality analysis infrastructure for EC data managed by my department with a limited number of staff. It was then that I learned about dbt and I still remember the shock I felt when I r...
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Anya Prosvetova
I’m a Data Engineer with a background in SaaS, consulting, financial services and the creative industries. I help organisations convert data into value, developing data pipelines and automating processes. I’m also a Tableau Visionary and DataDev Ambassador, and one of the organisers of Data + Wom...
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David Effiong
I started my career as a data analyst but I currently work as a data engineer in a financial Institution. I have experience working in both large organisations and startups. I have been in the dbt community for about 1 year and 6 months. I found out about dbt while working at a startup where I im...
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Emily Riederer
I'm a long-time dbt user and have been an active community member for a few years. Professionally, I've led a variety of data teams at Capital One spanning analytics, modeling, innersource data tools, and data infrastructure. The common denominator of all of these roles has been the overwhelmin...
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