About Me

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.