Tristan Handy
Founder at fishtown-analytics
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarTristan Handy is the founder and president of Fishtown Analytics with a decade of experience building open-source tools for advanced analytics from Philadelphia. He combines entrepreneurial leadership with hands-on data engineering, authoring and extending widely used dbt utilities such as generate_series, date manipulation macros, and robust testing helpers. Tristan focuses on making analytics engineering more reproducible and scalable, translating complex data workflows into practical, auditable macros and utilities. His work is notable for improving testability and safe type handling in dbt projects—details that often live behind the scenes but materially boost reliability for downstream teams.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
macros10
data-modeling10
data-transformation10
sql10
dbt10
testing9
bigquery8
amazon-redshift8
aws-redshift8
snowflake8
postgresql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-labs/dbt-utils
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
Utility functions for dbt projects.
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:7 releases, 47 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Tristan primarily focused on extending the functionality of dbt-utils, a library for dbt projects. Their contributions include implementing the `generate_series` macro and associated tests, which creates a series of numbers useful for generating test data or creating date spines. They also added functions for date manipulation, such as `last_day` and improved existing ones, and added testing capabilities. In addition, the user contributed to utility macros related to surrogate keys and safe casting for data types.
dbtutility-functionssqlterminology
dbt-labs/corp
Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
Assets related to the operation of Fishtown Analytics.
Contributions:6 reviews, 48 commits, 35 PRs in 6 years 7 months
assetsanalyticsoperation
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