As the sole analyst of a fast-growing Sydney startup, Claire experienced the pain of the traditional analyst workflow—stuck on a hamster wheel, an ever-growing backlog, and numbers that never quite matched up. So she taught herself dbt, the command line, version control and brought all the rigor of analytics engineering to her team. Along the way, she fell so in love with dbt that she eventually packed up and moved to the US to lead the growing dbt community.
