/now

A place to keep up with what I'm doing right now!



This page lists the most up-to-date information regarding what I am doing right now.

A little bit about me.

Motorhead, golfing, baseball, hiking, skiing, breadmaking, running, you name it. My passions carry me in many different and odd directions, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Life

I currently live in Austin, TX.

Work

I currently work for dbt Labs as a Resident Architect. My role focuses on helping dbt Labs’ biggest customers get more out of the product, and ultimately steward them towards a more highly-functioning data team and platform. I combine a mix of technical hands-on experience with more strategic and architectural frameworks to help data teams, taking specific interests in data modeling practices, platform engineering principles, and developer workflows impact on productivity. One of my favorite parts of my job is being able to take customer & community feedback and improve the dbt product and ecosystem through open source contributions. Thus far, I’ve contributed to dbt-core, the dbt Terraform provider, and the dbt MCP server. I am also a certified professional in a number of technologies, including dbt (Architect and Analytics Engineer), Google Cloud, and Databricks.

Volunteerism

I currently volunteer at Marbridge, a residential community for adults with a wide range of cognitive disabilities, putting on Bingo every Thursday night for residents. I’m currently kicking around coaching a Special Olympics team, time permitting!

Current Interests

Some of my current interests are:

  • Modern Data Stack (especially dbt)
  • Marathoning (I’m a Boston Qualifier, running Berlin in Fall 2025 next)
  • Formula 1, playing in a wood-bat baseball league (I played in college), sourdough breadmaking, Packers football and two-stepping at Sagebrush in Austin.
  • Any book on human nature, especially those summarizing data-driven research findings. I’m currently reading and fascinated by The Biggest Bluff.

Education

I have quite a passion for lifelong learning. So while much of education is in the past, I am definitely continuing to learn new topics right /now. It’s this passion that motivated me to learn web development by making this website. More formally, I earned my Bachelors degree from the University of Minnesota in Industrial and Systems Engineering (yes, that’s me on the front page). If you don’t know what the IE curriculum entails, it is the science of Decision making, usually based on data, done so via:

  • Statistics
  • Optimization
  • Simulation

Thanks to my time in college, I have strong passions for data-driven solutions and using technology to eliminate repetitive tasks and free up time for more creative tasks.

How can I get in touch?

Send me an email to tyler @ this domain. If you simply want to keep up with what’s going on with me, you can subscribe to the mailing list for updates delivered straight to your inbox.


This page is an inspiration from Derek Sivers and listed on nownownow.