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Hi everyone 👋 I’m Cat, one of the engineers working on Dagster with a focus on our Kubernetes deployment and community growth! Before Elementl, I worked on producing high quality datasets for ML use cases at Scale. Outside of coding, I’m like literature from/about the 1500s-1800s, practicing leathercraft, and reading Matt Levine. Excited to meet everyone 😄

Hi everyone 👋🏻 I’m Mina, the only non-technical person on this team who understands approximately 5% of what’s discussed in 100% of these channels. I have never deployed (worked on? used?) Kubernetes but I really like saying the word 😄

Hi all, I'm Yichen, the engineering and community ops from the Dagster core team. Many of you have received my invitation for a chat 😆 I used to be a k-12 educator and now I am learning how to be a good engineer! I love working with people as well as building things from scratch. Outside of work, I like reading science fiction and watching tennis games!

👋 hello! I’m Bob, an engineering fellow who’s working full-time on Dagster and growing our open source community. I’m currently on a gap year from Harvard, where I was studying applied math. outside of coding, I enjoy knitting and hiking ⛰️

Hello all, I’m Alex, an engineer working at Elementl on Dagster. Before joining Elementl in March 2019, I worked at Facebook/Oculus for 7 years on product infrastructure. I’m part of the subset of the team that is in Minneapolis MN. Welcome to the Dagster community!

Hello! I’m Isaac (aka dish — it’s my initials) and I’m a frontend engineer on the Dagster team, part of the Minneapolis crew along with Alex and Daniel. I joined Elementl in September after 7 years at Facebook and 4 years at Stripe. Welcome!

👋 hey everyone! I’m Nate, also on the team here at Elementl; I joined on the same day as Alex in 2019. Before Elementl, I led infrastructure and data science at Thumbtack for 4+ years, and I’ve been working in data for most of my career. From all the way back in the Hadoop days until now, orchestration always comes up as an important problem, and it’s been really exciting to help build a tool that’s so critical to what modern data teams are doing. Looking forward to hearing about what you build with Dagster!

Hi everyone 👋, I’m Yuhan, an engineer working on Dagtser focusing on asset management and our documentation. Prior to Elementl, I worked on Yelp’s data platform team. I have been trying to fight the pain in data engineering and analytics, which led me to Dagster hoping to make working with data easier. Welcome to the Dagster community!

Hi, I'm Owen, and I just joined Elementl this week! I previously spent 2+ years working on data infra at Yelp (Yuhan and I were, and now are, coworkers 😄). I'll be working on data assets here, essentially helping build the tool I wish I had. Welcome!

Hi, I’m Johann. I joined Elementl this past summer, after interning at Airbnb and Databricks. I like building data infra, and beyond that I like climbing and old-time music. Welcome!

Hi everyone! I’m Sashank, an engineer here on the Dagster team. I’ve been here since June 2019 and joined the team right after graduating from the University of Maryland. It’s been a ton of fun working in open source and learning from this community. In my free time I love playing chess (DM if you’d like to play!), practicing piano, and learning design. Welcome!

Hello All! 👋 My name is Nikki. I’m a data engineer at Scythe Robotics. I was starting down the road of building something similar Dagster after evaluating Airflow and a couple of other tools and finding it not quite what I wanted then I found Dagster. Happy to be here. Thanks to everyone who has already put so much effort into building a great tool.

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Watching Slack flicker/rerender as the channel member count incremented was truly a sight to behold just now

Hi everyone! Welcome to the #introductions channel. In 2021, we want to be more intentional about fostering a community where users can meet each other and share ideas. Part of this effort is this new channel. When new users sign up they will be encouraged to introduce themselves. Even if you have been here for a while, feel free to tell everyone about yourself! We want everyone here to know each other better and to feel comfortable asking questions and helping each other out. Plus knowing more people will make this all more enjoyable. And in that spirit:

- dagsir Hi! My name is Nick Schrock and I’m the founder and CEO of Elementl, the company behind Dagster. - graphql In a previous life, I worked at Facebook, where I created GraphQL. - 🔨 I believe deeply in the power of tools in technology to not just make people more productive, but also to accelerate their careers, make their lives more enjoyable, and transform the organizations where they work. The right tool can be the difference between someone being able to make it home in time (at least before Covid) to have dinner with their family if they absolutely have to get something done or fix a problem. I believe the tooling ecosystem in data does not even come close to matching the complexity of the problems that must be solved, and that’s what led me to found Elementl. - ⛷️ 🗻 🏃 🥾 🏄‍♂️ 📖 👨‍👩‍👦 In my free time, I enjoy downhill skiing, backcountry skiing, running, hiking, wakesurfing, reading, and spending time with my wife and 20 month-old son.

Hello everyone 👋 I’m Charles — I lead Data at Dribbble dribbble, working on analytics and data science initiatives that power all of the content feeds on our network. I’m really excited to learn more about Dagster; it looks like an awesome tool that I would like us to start using. Outside of work, you can usually find me either in a climbing gym or climbing outside! 🧗‍♂️

👋 I'm Jordan. I'm an engineer at Root Insurance (we're hiring chicken eyebrows) in Chicago. I lead our Pricing Data Engineering team where we work on scaling the platform our data scientists and actuaries use to price our insurance. Right now, we orchestrate all of our pipelines with AWS Step Functions but I got interested in Dagster as a potential alternative - so I've been dabbling and contributing a bit particularly around some of the AWS integrations and the local development story.

👋 Hey Everyone! Been following D for a while now but happy to reintroduce myself! • My name is John Mav and I’m the lead Data Engineer for the seattle krakeneattle Kraken’s Hockey Operations team. • Previously I worked at HelloSign and Udacity within their data engineering orgs as both an engineer and an analyst • In my spare time I like running, watching hockey 🏒 , reading 📚 , and watching scary movies google ghost blob

👋 I’m Dennis a data engineer at Drizly, helping build out our analytic infrastructure. Been playing with Dagster since the summer of last year and it’s now a part of our stack. Outside of data I am usually reading or getting lost walking

Hi! I'm Chris, a software engineer at Elementl working on Dagster. I joined this past summer, after interning at Airbnb and Facebook. Outside of work, I love music production and reading!

hi everyone blob wave im emily, the analytics data infrastructure lead at drizly drizly, and work with dennis ^ on our data infrastructure! outside of work, i do a lot of yoga and buy a lot of house plants 🪴

Hello! I’m Phil. I’m an engineer at Elementl, working on Dagster since Aug 2019. Outside of work, I’ve revived my interest in racquet sports (COVID-safe!), including a new one: pickleball! pickle🎾

Hey Everyone 👋, • I’m Tamas and I’m the techlead manager of data engineering at Prezi in Budapest/Hungary and committer in Apache Gobblin project. • We are migrating off our 800+ etl jobs from our homegrown data orchestrator to Dagster. (https://dagster.io/blog/community-update-sept-2020) We already migrated more than 100 jobs to Dagster and run these jobs in production for a while. • In my spare time I like to🕺 salsa dance and doing 🥋 kung-fu but nowadays I mostly play boardgames with my wife, 5 year old daughter and 7 years old son.

Hello folks- I'm Andy, CTO at Accendero Software. We primarily work in the pharma/biotech space. We recently chose dagster over other WFM options for one of our clients, and are enjoying how testable and easy to implement dagster is. I enjoy rock-climbing with my son and in my free time I enjoy learning new (human) languages.

I'm new to this ETL thing.... and old to just about everything else. I'm a product manager now, after decades in network operations and infosec. My CEO is a friend of @schrockn and I have a personal mission to create what I call Test Driven Product Management.

Hey y'all 👋 I'm David (everyone calls me dwall), a data platform engineer at goodeggs . I've been using D for production workloads for about a year now, but have been following the tool much longer than that due to a serendipitous run-in with @schrockn at DataEngConf many moons ago. It's been super exciting to see how much the community has grown recently! Looking forward to getting to know everyone better 🙂 Outside of work, I like playing with my two dogs (Banjo and Evie), running 🏃, playing board games 🎲, and mountain biking 🚵‍♂️

Hi, I am Steven from Yelp. I’ve been introduced about dagster as an up and coming data orchestration framework. I mostly deal with data integration issues, query execution issues, catalog issues, all the pain point in data that requires human intervention. I love databases.