Seattle dbt Meetup - Spring '25 Edition!

Welcome to the Seattle dbt Meetup - Spring Edition!

dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data. Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures.

To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy

Agenda

• 5:30 > Arrive, Eat, Drink, and be Merry (aka Socialize)
• 6:00 > Speaker 1, 2, & 3 presentations
• 7:00 > Networking happy hour
• 7:30 > after hours at The Lodge Sports Bar (a block away, not dbt sponsored)

Location

• Address:
• WeWork Office Space
  107 Spring St.
  Seattle, WA 98104
• Instructions:
• Meet at entrance and someone will assist get
• Parking Recommendations: Below building and street parking

Speaker Sessions:

Wolfram Shulte, Cofounder, CTO at SDF Labs
Wolfram now Distinguished Software Engineer at dbt Labs, will update us on the SDF Lab's acquisition by dbt Labs and how SDF will accelerate the dbt developer experience. The two teams have been working side-by-side to bring SDF’s SQL comprehension technology into the hands of dbt users everywhere. SDF will be a massive upgrade to the very heart of the dbt user experience moving forward.

Bishal Gupta
Topic: Migrating Stored Procedures to dbt models
Bishal is a Data Science Engineering Tech Lead at DocuSign with over two decades of experience in data analytics and BI solutions.
He introduced dbt-core to DocuSign’s Product Data Science team and led its transition to dbt Cloud as the enterprise data platform. A strong advocate of DRY code, Bishal leverages dbt for building scalable, high-performance data models..

Sundar Subramanyam
Topic: Automating dbt unit tests development with Gen AI
Sundar is a data and analytics veteran with 15+ years of experience in data & analytics space. He is a problem solver at heart, passionate about building scalable data solutions and enabling self-serve analytics to drive business impact. He enjoys connecting the dots between data, technology, and strategy to create meaningful insights.

Mahalakshmi Sridharan
Topic: Automating dbt unit tests development with Gen AI
Mahalakshmi is a Data Engineer at Docusign, where she spends her time building data pipelines in the Azure cloud. In the past, she has worked on 0 to 1 development of highly scalable web APIs

About the Interactive Session
Join us for an interactive session where we dive into the latest experiments and problem-solving wins in dbt. Come ready to share the challenges you're tackling, new dbt features you've tested, and any recent breakthroughs in your projects. Stuck somewhere? Excited about a new approach? Let’s swap ideas and learn from each other's experiences. (And yes, there will be prizes!)

➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-seattle channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/).

dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/