Marco D'amore
Engineering at Cursor
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco D'amore is a Head of Engineering with 12 years of experience building and scaling data and backend platforms from early-stage startups to enterprise integrations. He was an early engineering hire and technical lead at Transform, helped define the modern Semantic Layer, and drove its successful acquisition and integration into dbt Labs—leading product relaunches, BI partnerships, and cultural alignment across teams. Comfortable both hands-on and as a manager, he has a track record of shipping performant cloud stacks, owning security and infrastructure, and guiding teams through fast growth and M&A. Based in San Francisco, he blends product-focused engineering with deep customer-facing technical diligence, having participated in every major enterprise deal at Transform. Notably, he helped match and place engineers during the dbt acquisition, highlighting a rare mix of technical fluency and people-first leadership.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at McGill University
French
Github Skills (13)
data-modeling10
pypi10
recall10
code-behind10
analytics9
dbt-core9
business-intelligence9
prometheus8
slack7
dbt7
elt4
python4
testing2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
transform-data/docs
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Transform Data: Docs
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 comments in 2 months
transform-datadatatransform
dbt-labs/dbt-semantic-interfaces
May 2023 - Jul 2024
The shared semantic layer definitions that dbt-core and MetricFlow use.
Contributions:6 reviews, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
dbt-core
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