DataDev Day October 2024

Kevin Glover is a product management director at Tableau. He works closely with strategic technology partners to define joint projects, solutions, and best practices to help customers solve their analytics problems. In addition, Kevin serves as Tableau's Developer Advocate, showcasing the capabilities of the Tableau platform and promoting the voice of Tableau developers to influence and shape the Tableau product roadmap.

Tristan Handy is the Founder and CEO of dbt Labs. dbt is an emerging leader in the data transformation space. It's used by 50,000 companies including JetBlue, HubSpot, Dunelm, and SunRun. Tristan has over two decades of experience as a data practitioner working in both large enterprises and startups. His expertise and data industry best practices have influenced thousands of subscribers and listeners weekly via his newsletter and podcast covering analytics engineering.

Thomas is a director of product management at Tableau, focusing on data modeling and calculations. He has been instrumental in introducing new data modeling capabilities with relationships, making sorting intuitive, and adding the ISO 8601 week-based calendar among other analytic features and query optimizations. He is passionate about helping data professionals easily answer advanced analytic questions using diverse sources of data. After completing his PhD at University of Washington and prior to joining Tableau, Thomas was a program manager at Microsoft Office, working on Excel and PowerPoint.

I’ve been at Tableau for over four years. I’ve worked across many parts of the core product, having helped deliver improvements to dashboarding, Web authoring, and Tableau’s core data modeling and visualization capabilities. Currently I am the product manager for the forthcoming VizQL Data Service, our API to your published data source data. In my personal time, I enjoy creating family memories through camping and traveling.

Stephen Price has been a part of the #DataFam since 2017, he left the company for a while but came back in 2021 after some time in the startup world. Throughout his career in tech he has accumulated experience in analytics, databases, APIs, application development and AI. Stephen is currently obsessed with finding and proving use cases that combine Generative AI with Tableau as he is convinced DataDevs have so much to offer in this space. There is not doubt in Stephen's mind that people like you will be gaining magical powers thanks to AI! Stephen is from Quito, Ecuador, he used to live in Austin, TX but has recently moved to Southwestern Colorado in pursuit of a western adventure.

Marlo Abramowitz is a Senior Product Manager at Tableau, specializing in customer migration solutions. With extensive experience across Tableau, she has led key initiatives in self-service trials, growing the Tableau Exchange, and helping users adopt our products. Her expertise in enhancing the customer experience through innovative product solutions helps organizations seamlessly transition and maximize the value of Tableau’s offerings.

With five years of experience at Tableau, Steffen has worked on key projects including the Resource Monitoring Tool (RMT) and Content Migration Tool (CMT). Currently, Steffen is dedicated to developing the Migration-SDK, a solution designed to assist customers in migrating from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud. Steffen's passion for helping customers and driving innovation makes him an integral part of the Tableau team.

I have been at Tableau for over three years, working on the core product to deliver features for Tableau Cloud, Server, and Desktop. Recently, I have been collaborating closely with strategic technology partners to enhance customer experiences with data in Tableau. Before joining Tableau, I worked at Amazon AWS and Alexa AI. I graduated in 2008 and am excited to share the latest developments with Tableau developers at DataDev Day.

Kyle is a 2x Tableau DataDev Ambassador who lives with his husband, Dan, in Columbus, Ohio. He is a Lead Software Engineer managing the central development and automation team for Business Intelligence tools at a large financial services company. Kyle co-leads the DataPride TUG, creating a space for innovation, collaboration, and networking for the LGBTQIA+ members of the #DataFam and our allies. He is originally from Cincinnati, but moved to Columbus in 2004 to attend the Ohio State University and never left! In his spare time, Kyle enjoys playing video games, spending time with his pets Kevin (dog), Jonah (dog) and Willie (cat).

I am a developer advocate, or, as Warren Thornthwaite used to call me, a data magician with many hats who pushes the limits every day to improve and help make faster and better decisions. My passion as a System Engineer is helping to grow others, bringing my experience of over 20+ years designing “& implementing Data Warehouses and leading Data “& Analytics mission-critical projects for Telco, Energy, Mobile Food, and Health Care. Currently working in Xeo Matrix Tableau Partner as Senior Solution Architect. I enjoy playing LEGO and sharing knowledge as an author for TowardsDataScience.com at https://cristiansaavedra.medium.com/ You can find me on LinkedIn, DataDev Slack or in our Latin community comunidatos.com

Timothy is a passionate analytics specialist from Belgium with a comprehensive knowledge of Tableau and related topics such as automation, integrations, and embedding. At Biztory, he acts as a “DataDev” where he gets to work on fun Tableau-oriented products. His hobbies include running, playing the guitar or drums (poorly), listening to metal music or simply enjoying a beer with his friends. Last but not least, he made it to 2018 Global Iron Viz Champion! His biggest ambition of the decade, successfully tackled. Now, in 2024, he is honored to serve a fifth term as a Tableau DataDev Ambassador. You can follow him on Twitter and see his vizzes on Tableau Public.