Katie Hindson
Data
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Hindson is a computational ecologist turned data leader with 7 years of experience applying analytics to product and business problems across fintech and BI startups. She has led data and product teams at Lightdash and Monzo, building self-serve BI and data-informed product decisioning, and now works on data at Morse. Her academic background in computational ecology and quantitative biology underpins a strong quantitative intuition—she’s comfortable with large, messy datasets (her student work analysed over 16 million biometeorological observations). Katie also contributes to open-source documentation for Lightdash, improving onboarding and feature guides, showing a user-centered approach to technical communication.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MRes), Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution (CMEE), Master of Science (MRes), Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution (CMEE) at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours Quantitative Biology (Theoretical Ecology and Evolution), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours Quantitative Biology (Theoretical Ecology and Evolution) at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (8)
markdown10
docusaurus10
markdown-it10
documentation10
technical-writing10
data-analytics4
dbt4
business-intelligence4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lightdash/lightdash
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Self-serve BI to 10x your data team ⚡️
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:358 reviews, 171 commits, 405 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Katie primarily contributed to the project's documentation. Their work involved updating onboarding documentation, adding guides for various features like password resets, chart creation, and table calculations. The user also revised the documentation structure and updated existing content to improve clarity and address user needs, demonstrating a strong focus on providing comprehensive user guidance.
data-analyticsdbt-packagesdbtbusiness-intelligencedata-visualization
lightdash/dbt_hubspot
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Data models for Hubspot built using dbt.
Contributions:2 releases, 43 commits, 8 PRs in 29 days
dbtdatawarehousedata-modelshubspot
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