Faith McKenna
Hi! I'm Faith McKenna, a data practitioner, writer, and technical trainer. I love exploring data, writing about the data industry and my experiences in it, and sharing the results of my side projects

Skills
- Python for data analysis
- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Data visualization
- Analytics Engineering
- Blogging & communication
- dbt, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Looker, Hex
Background
My education is in ecology and biodiversity, a discipline that requires sharp attention to detail, and keen pattern recognition. My work experience has been in a variety of technical and educational roles. Most recently, I built a data stack from scratch in partnership with a data engineer. These days, I help data teams all over the world get up and running on dbt, helping them understand its best practices and establishing strong analytics engineering practices on their data team.
Latest posts
Allnews
- December, 2024: Promoted to Lead Technical Instructor @ dbt Labs
- February, 2025: Received "We create remarkable experiences" award at dbt CKO 2025
- May, 2025: Wrote and published Canvas Fundamentals, an online course to educate dbt users about dbt Canvas, a low-code model development interface.
- October, 2025: Delivered Test Smarter, Not Harder Peer Exchange at dbt Coalesce 2025
- October, 2025: Delivered AI & ADLC-focused portions of dbt Coalesce Keynote at dbt Coalesce 2025