Zach Mcquiston
Senior Data Engineer
American Fork, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Mcquiston is a Senior Data Engineer with eight years of experience building data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and web applications—primarily on AWS and in Python—to support cybersecurity and analytics at Fidelity. He blends full-stack engineering with data-first practices, having moved between roles focused on open-source visibility, inner-source metrics, and production data products. An AWS Certified Developer and active contributor to dbt-core, Zach has improved core debugging functionality to help plugin authors integrate custom debug queries. Based in American Fork, Utah, he’s currently pursuing an MS in Analytics at Georgia Tech, combining formal analytics training with hands-on engineering in enterprise security contexts.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Analytics, Master of Science - MS Analytics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Information Systems at Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business
Github Skills (7)
data-modeling10
back-end-development10
python10
viewpoint10
dbt10
analytics9
sql8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-labs/dbt-core
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Zach focused on adding and modifying the `debug_query` function within the dbt-core project. They added this function to the base adapter and related debug task, enabling plugin authors to integrate their own debug query functionality. Their contributions involved changes across multiple core files, including those related to database connections, and included the addition of type hints and fixing linting issues.
analyticsdbt-viewpointtransformanalystssql
zmac12/dbt
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
dbt (data build tool) enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.
Contributions:6 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
datawarehousedbt-packagestransformanalystssql
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