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.

Opeyemi Fabiyi

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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. I've also got a background in financial services and supply chain. I'm passionate about helping organizations to become data-driven and I majorly use dbt...

Jing Yu Lim

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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...

Alan Cruickshank

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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...

Faith Lierheimer

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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...

Owen Prough

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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/...

Josh Devlin

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After "discovering" dbt in early 2020, I joined the community and used it as a learning tool while I tried to get dbt introduced at my company. By helping others, I learned about common pitfalls, best practices, and the breadth of the tool. When it came time to implement it months later, I already felt like a...

Shinya Takimoto

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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...

Anya Prosvetova

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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...

Bruno de Lima

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I am an Analytics Engineer and aspiring tech writer coming from an academic engineering background. I worked at Indicium as an Analytics Engineer for more than a year, having worked with dbt (of course, every day) for transformation; BigQuery, Snowflake, and Databricks as data warehouses; Power ...

David Effiong

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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...

Karen Hsieh

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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...

Emily Riederer

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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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