Michelle Ark
Senior Staff Software Engineer at University of Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Ark is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building data platforms and developer-focused tooling, currently leading engineering efforts at dbt Labs in Toronto. She has a strong background at Shopify across multiple senior data platform roles and co-founded an early-stage startup, bringing both scale-oriented and startup problem-solving experience. Michelle contributes to the widely used open-source dbt-core project, improving test frameworks, typing, and reliability for data transformation workflows. She also teaches at the University of Toronto, combining industry practice with academic mentorship. Her blend of production-grade data engineering, open-source stewardship, and hands-on teaching highlights a focus on making data tooling more robust and accessible.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MScAC Computer Science, MScAC Computer Science at University of Toronto
English, Russian
Github Skills (8)
data-modeling10
python10
dbt10
data-engineering10
testing10
analytics9
cicd9
sql9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-labs/dbt-core
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
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:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:866 reviews, 47 commits, 683 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Michelle primarily contributed to the dbt-core repository by converting existing tests related to cycle and exit codes, as well as test run operations. They also added typing to a critical `DepsTask.run` function, added the `--warn-error-options` flag, and implemented various test-related functions and fixtures. The user's work shows a focus on test framework development and enhancing the dbt-core library's reliability and functionality.
analyticsdbt-viewpointtransformanalystssql
arkadyark/raisr
Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
AI and skiing!
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 3 months
pythondeep-learningmachine-learningaiskiing
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