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.

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...