Drew Gillson
Co-Founder at Thin Air Labs
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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SeniorDrew Gillson is a seasoned founder and technology leader with 13 years of hands-on experience building data, analytics, and AI solutions across startups and enterprise environments in Canada. He co-founded Gravity after a long history leading global services delivery and AI & analytics teams at Google following Looker’s acquisition, pairing product and people leadership with practical deployment of Generative AI/LLM use cases. Drew’s background spans ecommerce, retail, advertising and healthcare, and he’s repeatedly navigated both technical infrastructure and operational functions—from co-founding a direct-to-consumer brand to running professional services at scale. Active in the Calgary tech community, he serves on the YYC Data Society board and invests through Thin Air Labs, combining community stewardship with early-stage support. Notably, his career blends startup grit with large-cloud program delivery, making him fluent at translating advanced ML capabilities into customer-facing solutions.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
43reputation
1kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (90)
looker10
chatgpt10
ai10
agentic10
autogen10
energy9
renewable-energy8
lookml8
operation7
visualizations7
sdk7
server-side7
elasticsearch6
ziggy6
database6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
llooker/transcriber
Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
Transcriber reproduces analytical, neat, similarly-comprehensive reviews, incorporating #bestpractices every rendition
Contributions:84 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
nlpbestpracticesmachine-learningrenditionanalytical
untapped-energy/data
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Untapped Oil & Gas Datathon
Contributions:149 commits, 1 PR, 167 pushes in 3 months
pythondatathongasoil-gasoil
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