for more info on what it's like to work with me, check out my new WORKING_WITH_ME.md
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opportunities for more cinnamon rolls
- working to make the frontier of the data industry approachable and useful for everyone (DuckDB, Iceberg, dbt Core 2.0, etc)
- fully AI-pilled: my dotfiles are an agentic-coding operations manual at this point
- raising toddlers
- daydreaming about building a backyard ADU in Richmond, VA
- data memes
- contributing to duckdb-iceberg
- the fusion_issue_analysis bakeoff project
- James River Gooners
- trying to become a better writer
- making children's music playlists that don't suck
- dbt!
- SQL syntax differences across 10+ different databases
- why Iceberg and DuckDB are eating the data stack
- dbt Fusion internals (it's written in Rust!)
- what a genuinely cross-platform dbt future looks like
- the competitive landscape in data tooling, and where it's headed next
- pandas method chains
- if my dog is a good boy