Dakota Kelley is a Principal Solutions Architect at phData, specializing in modern data engineering and cloud architecture. With more than a decade of experience, he has held roles including Senior Software Developer at Oklahoma State University and Senior Data Engineer and Solutions Architect at phData. He holds a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from Oklahoma State University and a Bachelor of Technology with specializations in Forensics, Assurance, and Software Development from Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. Dakota is passionate about leveraging tools like dbt and Snowflake to build scalable data solutions and actively contributes to the dbt community.