Summary
Anna Filippova is a data- and community-focused technology leader with 11 years of experience building analytics, developer growth, and community programs at companies including Snowflake, dbt Labs, and GitHub. She combines academic rigor—a PhD and postdoc studying open source and distributed collaboration—with hands-on operational leadership, having scaled dbt’s community from 2 to 65K+ members and rebuilt data pipelines and telemetry to 90%+ reliability. As Director of Developer Growth Marketing, she connects product funnels to community outcomes and designs canonical business data models that inform executive and board-level decisions. Anna blends analytics engineering, documentation strategy, and developer relations to turn complex data into actionable growth signals and scalable community systems. She also advises startups like Bytewax, applying lessons from social research to practical organizational design and automation. Colleagues know her for digging into team dynamics and data model trade-offs with the same curiosity she once applied to studying conflict and learning in open source communities.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Degree Communications, Honours Degree Communications at Monash University
PhD Communication and New Media, PhD Communication and New Media at National University of Singapore
English, Russian, Malay