What we’re about
San Francisco's community for data engineers, analytics engineers, and data professionals who debug data problems together.
If you've ever spent hours debugging dbt models, untangling data lineage, or explaining why your staging environment doesn't match production, you've found your people.
What We Do:
- Monthly meetups with technical discussions and networking
- Lightning talks on data debugging, data quality, and modern data stack challenges
- Community support for data pipeline issues, dbt problems, and analytics engineering questions
- Career development and skill sharing for data professionals
Who Should Join:
- Data engineers wrestling with pipeline issues
- Analytics engineers working with dbt, Looker, or similar tools
- Data scientists dealing with data quality problems
- Anyone who's ever said "the data looks weird" and meant it
- Professionals using tools like Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow, or the modern data stack
Topics We Cover:
- dbt best practices and troubleshooting
- Data quality and testing strategies
- Modern data stack tools and techniques
- CI/CD for data engineering
- Analytics engineering workflows
- Data pipeline debugging and optimization
- Career growth in data engineering
Community Values:
- Learning together, not competing
- Practical solutions over theoretical discussions
- Inclusive environment for all experience levels
- No sales pitches or recruiting spam
Join us to debug data problems together instead of alone. Whether you're a senior data engineer or just starting your analytics engineering journey, there's a place for you in our community.
Follow us: @datadebugSF on LinkedIn and Bluesky
Upcoming events
12
Data Debug SF: Lightning Talk Edition v4 ⚡
Heavybit Office, 523 Octavia St, San Francisco, CA, USData Debug SF: Lightning Talk Edition v4 ⚡
It’s our last Data Debug of the year!
We’re keeping it simple: short talks from practitioners, good conversations, and no one trying to sell you anything.Our Speakers + Topics:
- Arsham Eslami (Founder @Greybeam) - Intro to Iceberg catalogs
- Sam Goswami (Data Eng & Principal Architect) - Observability for AI Agents
- David Cooper (Startup Team @Snowflake) - AI Agents for Common Problems
Who should come:
- People looking for a laid-back atmosphere to connect & learn from others in the data and analytics eng space
- Anyone who’s ever fallen down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why a dashboard looks off
- Builders with side projects or experiments they want to share
Schedule:
- 5:30pm networking w/ drinks + snacks
- 6:15pm lightning talks start
- 7:00pm networking w/drinks + snacks
This is for practitioners, by practitioners. No sales pitches please.
Hosted by Recce: Data reviews for the AI era. Find data issues before your stakeholders do. Learn more at reccehq.com
9 attendeesData Debug SF: Lightning Talk Edition v4 ⚡
Heavybit Office, 523 Octavia St, San Francisco, CA, USData Debug SF: Lightning Talk Edition v4 ⚡
It’s our last Data Debug of the year!
We’re keeping it simple: short talks from practitioners, good conversations, and no one trying to sell you anything.Our Speakers + Topics:
- Arsham Eslami (Founder @Greybeam) - Intro to Iceberg catalogs
- Sam Goswami (Data Eng & Principal Architect) - Observability for AI Agents
- David Cooper (Startup Team @Snowflake) - AI Agents for Common Problems
Who should come:
- People looking for a laid-back atmosphere to connect & learn from others in the data and analytics eng space
- Anyone who’s ever fallen down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why a dashboard looks off
- Builders with side projects or experiments they want to share
Schedule:
- 5:30pm networking w/ drinks + snacks
- 6:15pm lightning talks start
- 7:00pm networking w/drinks + snacks
This is for practitioners, by practitioners. No sales pitches please.
Hosted by Recce: Data reviews for the AI era. Find data issues before your stakeholders do. Learn more at reccehq.com
1 attendeeData Debug SF: Monthly Meetup
Heavybit Office, 523 Octavia St, San Francisco, CA, USData Debug SF: Monthly Meetup
Topic specifics will be posted about 1 month out from each event. We typically do lightning talks + networking, but sometimes panels or workshops. We're anti-sales pitches and focus on providing a welcoming space for data practitioners to talk about problems they're solving or projects they're working on.
Who should come:
- People looking for a laid-back atmosphere to connect & learn from others in the data and analytics eng space
- Anyone who’s ever fallen down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why a dashboard looks off
- Builders with side projects or experiments they want to share
Schedule:
- 5:30pm networking w/ drinks + snacks
- 6:15pm lightning talks start
- 7:00pm networking w/drinks + snacks
This is for practitioners, by practitioners. No sales pitches please.
Hosted by Recce: Data reviews for the AI era. Find data issues before your stakeholders do. Learn more at reccehq.com
1 attendeeData Debug SF: Monthly Meetup
Heavybit Office, 523 Octavia St, San Francisco, CA, USData Debug SF: Monthly Meetup
Topic specifics will be posted about 1 month out from each event. We typically do lightning talks + networking, but sometimes panels or workshops. We're anti-sales pitches and focus on providing a welcoming space for data practitioners to talk about problems they're solving or projects they're working on.
Who should come:
- People looking for a laid-back atmosphere to connect & learn from others in the data and analytics eng space
- Anyone who’s ever fallen down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why a dashboard looks off
- Builders with side projects or experiments they want to share
Schedule:
- 5:30pm networking w/ drinks + snacks
- 6:15pm lightning talks start
- 7:00pm networking w/drinks + snacks
This is for practitioners, by practitioners. No sales pitches please.
Hosted by Recce: Data reviews for the AI era. Find data issues before your stakeholders do. Learn more at reccehq.com
1 attendee
Past events
4
