Jacob Werderits
Senior Data Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Werderits is a Senior Data Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable analytics pipelines and testing infrastructure for organizations ranging from nonprofits to gaming. Currently at Riot Games, he applies engineering rigor to large-scale data transformations while drawing on prior analytics-engineering experience at Fishtown Analytics (dbt) and hands-on data work at the ACLU. He has contributed QA and test automation improvements to the widely used dbt-core project, strengthening cross-database test coverage and fixing subtle test/import issues. Trained in mathematics at UCLA with an accounting foundation, he bridges quantitative reasoning, data quality, and pragmatic engineering practices. Colleagues rely on him for improving testability and reproducibility in analytics codebases—skills honed across diverse sectors. Jacob combines a product-aware mindset with a focus on dependable, auditable data delivery.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Achievement, Accounting, Certificate of Achievement, Accounting at Santa Monica CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (11)
python10
viewpoint10
dbt10
testing10
sql8
analytics7
data-modeling7
amazon-redshift6
aws-redshift6
postgresql6
snowflake6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-labs/dbt-core
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 28 days
Contributions summary:Jacob's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure within the dbt-core repository. This involved modifications to existing test files, including additions to the test suite and adjustments to configuration parameters. They made changes to the test files by fixing the issue of missing imports and improving the existing tests. Furthermore, the user's commits demonstrated a focus on testing the dbt project across different database platforms.
analyticsdbt-viewpointtransformanalystssql
dbt-labs/tap-mind-body
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:36 commits in 3 months
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