
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 (4)
See all- Data Debug SF: Lightning Talk Sept Edition⚡Heavybit Office, San Francisco, CA
Data Debug SF: Lightning Talk Sept Edition⚡
Our second Data Debug was everything we hoped it would be with practitioners sharing real work, authentic conversations, and people staying late just to keep talking. We're back this month with more lightning talks from community members.Our Speakers + Topics:
- Nicole Ng (Data Scientist & Colors of Hue Founder) - An analysis on color analysis
- Nathan Martinez (Software Eng at Polygon.io) - tbd specifics but will be about databases
- TBD! We're looking for 1-2 more speakers, DM if interested.
What's happening in general:
- 5-15 minute lightning talks
- Networking with people who get why staging never matches prod
- Good drinks, snacks, and even better conversation
Who should come:
- People wanting to connect and learn from others in the data and analytics eng space
- Anyone who's ever said "the data looks weird" and spent hours proving it
- People building cool side projects 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.
Limited spots - RSVP to secure yours.
Hosted by Recce: Cut data PR review time by 90% and ship accurate data fast. Learn more at reccehq.com
- Data Debug SF: Monthly Meetup!Heavybit Office, San Francisco, CA
Exact Topic & format will be announced closer to the event!
What's happening in general:
- Topics: Real workflows, side projects, problems you've actually solved
- Networking with people who get why staging never matches prod
- Good drinks and even better debugging war stories
Who should come:
- Data engineers wrestling with pipeline nightmares
- Analytics engineers debugging models at 2am
- Anyone who's ever said "the data looks weird" and spent hours proving it
- People building cool side projects they want to share
What we're NOT doing:
- Sales pitches
- Product demos
- Corporate presentations
This is for practitioners, by practitioners. Come share what you're working on or just come to learn from others dealing with the same daily struggles.
Limited spots - RSVP to secure yours.
Join our community:
- Discord
- Follow us: @datadebugsf
Hosted by Recce: Cut data PR review time by 90% and ship accurate data fast. Learn more at reccehq.com
Can't make it to this event? Join our Discord for ongoing discussions and follow us for future meetups!
- Data Debug SF: Monthly Meetup!Heavybit Office, San Francisco, CA
Exact Topic & format will be announced closer to the event!
What's happening in general:
- Topics: Real workflows, side projects, problems you've actually solved
- Networking with people who get why staging never matches prod
- Good drinks and even better debugging war stories
Who should come:
- Data engineers wrestling with pipeline nightmares
- Analytics engineers debugging models at 2am
- Anyone who's ever said "the data looks weird" and spent hours proving it
- People building cool side projects they want to share
What we're NOT doing:
- Sales pitches
- Product demos
- Corporate presentations
This is for practitioners, by practitioners. Come share what you're working on or just come to learn from others dealing with the same daily struggles.
Limited spots - RSVP to secure yours.
Join our community:
- Discord
- Follow us: @datadebugsf
Hosted by Recce: Cut data PR review time by 90% and ship accurate data fast. Learn more at reccehq.com
Can't make it to this event? Join our Discord for ongoing discussions and follow us for future meetups!
- Data Debug SF: Monthly Meetup!Heavybit Office, San Francisco, CA
Exact Topic & format will be announced closer to the event!
What's happening in general:
- Topics: Real workflows, side projects, problems you've actually solved
- Networking with people who get why staging never matches prod
- Good drinks and even better debugging war stories
Who should come:
- Data engineers wrestling with pipeline nightmares
- Analytics engineers debugging models at 2am
- Anyone who's ever said "the data looks weird" and spent hours proving it
- People building cool side projects they want to share
What we're NOT doing:
- Sales pitches
- Product demos
- Corporate presentations
This is for practitioners, by practitioners. Come share what you're working on or just come to learn from others dealing with the same daily struggles.
Limited spots - RSVP to secure yours.
Join our community:
- Discord
- Follow us: @datadebugsf
Hosted by Recce: Cut data PR review time by 90% and ship accurate data fast. Learn more at reccehq.com
Can't make it to this event? Join our Discord for ongoing discussions and follow us for future meetups!