Alex Gardyasz is an Analytics Engineering Manager and Data Architect at SWBC, where he leads a team building curated Snowflake data models with dbt to support finance, operations, and product reporting. He focuses on engineering best practices, improving data lineage and visibility, and enabling analytics teams to deliver reliable, actionable data. Previously, he was a data engineer at Amazon/AWS, and he now bridges traditional data engineering and modern analytics engineering from his base in Texas, mentoring new engineers and solving challenging data problems.