Anika Swenson
VP Solutions Engineering at Omni
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnika Swenson is a data-focused engineering leader with 10 years of experience building and scaling customer-facing technical teams; she currently serves as VP Solutions Engineering at Omni in San Francisco. She spent nearly a decade at Looker (and later Google) where she progressed from Sales Engineer to Head of Sales Engineering and led product and developer advocacy for Malloy, an open-source language for semantic data modeling. Anika blends hands-on data work—contributing Malloy models for flights, e-commerce and Hacker News—with strategic product shaping and customer success, making complex analytics accessible to practitioners. Her background in biopsychology gives her a unique lens for translating human insights into data product decisions and developer experiences. She’s known for bridging engineering, product and sales, and for turning experimental language features into practical examples that help adopters move from curiosity to production.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Biopsychology, Biopsychology at University of St AndrewsBachelor of Science (B.S.) Biopsychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Biopsychology at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (8)
data-analysis10
sql9
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
data-set8
data-model8
price-data8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
malloydata/malloy
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
Malloy is an experimental language for describing data relationships and transformations.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:15 reviews, 261 commits, 79 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Anika primarily contributed to updating and modifying various Malloy models, including those related to FAA flights, e-commerce, and Hacker News data. They focused on refining existing queries, adding new queries, and restructuring models to incorporate new features and examples, specifically adapting them for the "betalang" syntax. The changes involved updating models to leverage a new syntax and incorporating several data analysis capabilities.
data-managementdatasqlquery-languagetransformations
malloydata/malloy-vscode-extension
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
The Malloy Visual Studio Code extension facilitates building Malloy data models, querying and transforming data, and creating simple visualizations and dashboards
Contributions:72 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 1 month
visual-studiodatavisual-studio-codequeryingvscode
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