Anna Swigart is a senior engineering and data leader with 12 years of experience building enterprise-scale data platforms, governance, and AI-powered analytics for healthcare and consumer businesses. She currently leads engineering and data at Helix, driving partner experiences, observability, and foundational data products that enable precision medicine and population-scale research. Previously she built Zillow’s data platform and governance capabilities—spanning Spark, Trino, Kafka, Flink, dbt, Iceberg and modern data privacy controls—scaling data quality, discovery, and compliance across the company. Anna combines deep technical hands-on experience (from clickstream and ML pipelines to large-scale ETL systems) with a research-rooted background in cognitive neuroscience and statistics, which informs her pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to data stewardship. Known for turning prototypes into production systems and aligning cross-functional stakeholders, she excels at making complex data trustworthy and usable.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Psychology, B.S., Psychology at University of Washington
Master of Information Management and Systems, School of Information, Master of Information Management and Systems, School of Information at UC Berkeley School of Information
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Anna Swigart - Senior Director, Engineering at Helix