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Colton P.

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Data Engineer & Developer Advocate at Dagster Labs
📍 Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Colton is a data engineer and developer advocate at Dagster Labs, specializing in data orchestration and processing solutions. With a background from Virginia Tech, he previously engineered large-scale data systems at Gemini and Georgetown Universitys Massive Data Institute, and holds a Dagster Essentials certification.

Outside of his primary role, Colton has a strong interest in music production technologies, indicated by his interest in Ableton and Native Instruments. He has also applied his technical skills to environmental projects, co-founding an air quality monitoring initiative.

He was a founding member of a project to design and architect consumer-grade IoT devices for monitoring air quality.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Data Engineer & Developer Advocate
Job Level
Middle
Location
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Personality Overview

How Colton shows up

Value Driven
Curious
Assertive

They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They often ask many questions and rely heavily on information and documentation. They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.

Priorities

Topics Colton cares about

Data Orchestration
As a Developer Advocate for Dagster, he creates content and helps users build and manage complex data pipelines, integrating tools like Airflow and Databricks.
Developer Advocacy
His role involves creating educational materials like courses and videos, and he is highly active in the Dagster community, frequently answering user questions on Slack.
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Career

Work history

1-2024
Data Engineer & Developer Advocate
Dagster Labs
10-2023 - 1-2024
Staff Data Engineer
Gemini
4-2022 - 10-2023
Senior Data Engineer
Gemini
6-2019 - 4-2022
Founding Member and Technical Adviser
Globally Unified Air Quality
3-2019 - 4-2022
Research Software Engineer, Massive Data Institute
Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy
In the press

Media appearances

Dagster Labs | The Age of AI is Changing Data Engineering for Good. Featured in YouTube (Dagster Labs Channel)
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Dagster Labs | Dev/Stage/Prod is the Wrong Pattern for Data Pipelines. Featured in Dagster Labs (YouTube)
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Education
Bachelor's degree
Virginia Tech
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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