Leo Folsom
Solutions Engineering Manager at Datafold
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolLeo Folsom is a solutions engineering manager with 11 years of experience helping data teams migrate, validate, and productionize reliable data products. At Datafold he leads solutions engineering, customer success, and AI-accelerated migrations from legacy databases to modern stacks, having previously delivered dbt-driven transformations and tooling that cut production transform times and improved data testability. His background spans founding a startup acquired in 2018, shaping analytics teams and hiring at Clarify Health, and hands-on analytics and SQL training at eviCore, giving him a rare mix of product instincts, technical execution, and people leadership. Based in Eugene, Oregon, he combines public health training from Harvard with practical engineering skills and a history of contributing to open-source dbt tools—an unusual blend that helps him translate complex data requirements into auditable, scalable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies ProgramMaster's Degree Public Health, Master's Degree Public Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public HealthBachelor of Arts American Studies Russian, Bachelor of Arts American Studies Russian at Williams CollegeCourse for Credit: Cell Biology Biology General, Course for Credit: Cell Biology Biology General at Boston UniversityCourse: dbt Fundamentals, Course: dbt Fundamentals at dbt LabsCourse for Credit: Introduction to Statistics Mathematics and Statistics, Course for Credit: Introduction to Statistics Mathematics and Statistics at UC Berkeley Extension OnlineCourse for Credit: Designing and Developing Relational and NoSQL Databases Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration, Course for Credit: Designing and Developing Relational and NoSQL Databases Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration at Harvard Extension School
English, Russian
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Github Skills (77)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
datafold/datafold-docs
Oct 2022 - Oct 2023
Datafold documentation including Overviews, Guides, APIs, Examples, & FAQs
Contributions:129 reviews, 148 PRs, 291 pushes in 1 year
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leoebfolsom/docs.getdbt.com
Dec 2021 - Mar 2024
The code behind docs.getdbt.com
Contributions:7 PRs, 23 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 2 months
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