Anders Swanson
Sr Developer Experience Advocate (L4)
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnders Swanson is a senior Developer Experience Advocate with 11 years of experience bridging math education, data science, and developer-focused engineering at startups and enterprise consulting firms. He brings a rare combination of classroom pedagogy and production-grade data tooling—having taught math, built ML pipelines, and led data engineering teams before focusing on developer experience at dbt Labs. At dbt he contributes to core projects and documentation, improving snapshot materializations, cross-database testing, and usability for one of the most widely adopted analytics engineering tools. Anders excels at translating complex technical concepts into clear, usable guidance and has a track record of building reproducible, automated analytics products and onboarding curricula that scale teams quickly. Based in Richmond, VA, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with hands-on open-source contributions to make developer workflows more predictable and humane.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Secondary Education, Spanish, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Secondary Education, Spanish at Cornell CollegeMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Spanish, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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151answers
38questions
azure
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Github Skills (24)
markdown10
python10
viewpoint10
macros10
jinjava10
dbt10
markdown-it10
sql10
documentation10
tsql9
data-engineering9
analytics9
data-modeling9
elt9
azure9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
The code behind docs.getdbt.com
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:371 reviews, 350 commits, 196 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Anders primarily contributed to the documentation of the dbt-labs/docs.getdbt.com repository. Their commits involved modifications to various documentation files, including changes to sidebars, guides, and reference pages. The user also made updates to the components and styles, suggesting an effort to improve the overall presentation and structure of the documentation. This demonstrates a focus on enhancing the clarity and usability of the documentation.
code-behind
dbt-labs/dbt-utils
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Utility functions for dbt projects.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 38 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Anders primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining dbt-utils, a library of utility functions for dbt projects. Their contributions include refactoring and adapting schema tests, which involved modifying existing tests and integrating them with a dispatching mechanism for cross-database compatibility. The user also addressed T-SQL-specific code requirements and fixed general code typos. Furthermore, they added support for variable arguments in macros.
dbt
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