Oliver Laslett
Co-Founder & CTO at Lightdash
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolOliver Laslett is a founder-CTO and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven products and teams from San Francisco. As Co-Founder and CTO of Lightdash he leads an open-source, self-serve BI platform aimed at making data teams ten times more productive, while contributing hands-on to backend fixes and production dbt integrations. His background spans applied ML and risk analytics—developing credit scoring, insurance risk models, and NLP systems for enterprise clients—bringing research-grade statistical rigor from a PhD in stochastic modelling. Comfortable across Python, Go, JS, cloud and infra (Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD), he combines product intuition with deep technical execution. He’s equally at home debugging multi-join query issues as shaping product trust between data teams and users. A quieter distinguishing trait: he started his career building community and teaching others (founding a quant meetup and supporting students), so he pairs engineering leadership with a bias for mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Stochastic Modelling in Nanomagnetism, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Stochastic Modelling in Nanomagnetism at University of SouthamptonMEng Aerospace Engineering, MEng Aerospace Engineering at The University of SheffieldA Levels Maths Further Maths Physics Electronics Music Technology, A Levels Maths Further Maths Physics Electronics Music Technology at Farnborough 6th Form College
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Github Skills (15)
sql10
back-end-development10
dbt10
environment-variables9
postgresql9
docker8
dockers8
apply6
pandas6
jupyter-notebook6
ipython6
plot6
python6
dataframe6
ipython-magic6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lightdash/lightdash
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Self-serve BI to 10x your data team ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:114 releases, 1524 reviews, 469 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Oliver's contributions focused on resolving issues related to multiple joins and error messages in the application's front-end. They also made changes to standardize environment variables for the dbt project and run the dbt process in the production Docker image. Furthermore, the user implemented features such as including the usage of string equals filters and adding a query tag.
data-analyticsdbt-packagesdbtbusiness-intelligencedata-visualization
lightdash/rudderstack
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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