Dana Klassen
Co-Founder at Data Gardeners
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDana Klassen is a data-focused software leader and co-founder with 15 years of experience turning messy, large-scale datasets into reliable products and decision-ready insights. She led People Analytics and Data Experiences teams at Shopify, building pipelines, metadata and monitoring systems that supported company-wide reporting and IPO-grade data integrity. Dana combines hands-on data engineering—Spark, Hadoop/columnar stores and near-real-time monitoring—with people-driven solutions that help analysts, engineers and business stakeholders ask better questions faster. At Data Gardeners she now helps companies mature their data capabilities from scrappy startups to high-growth enterprises. Her early background in bioinformatics and semantic integration gives her a rare fluency in integrating disparate datasets for complex domains like genomics and pharma. Colocated in Ottawa, she blends technical depth with an educator’s impulse to teach teams how to own their data.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Biology with specialization in bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS, Biology with specialization in bioinformatics at Carleton University
Github Skills (54)
rdf9
vpn-client9
datasets9
vpn-server9
tinypng9
encryption8
manjaro8
ubuntu8
ipsec8
security8
wireguard8
strongswan8
vpn8
ssh-tunnel8
tablet7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dklassen/qmk_firmware
Feb 2019 - Mar 2023
keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR and ARM USB families
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
dklassen/.dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 pushes in 10 years 4 months
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