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Dakota Kelley

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Dakota Kelley

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Solution Architect phData

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.

Bio from: dbt Coalesce 2023

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Powering MuleSoft's (a Salesforce Company) modern data analytics framework with dbt - Coalesce 2023

In this session, Yijun Cao and Dakota Kelley highlight how dbt plays a key role in MuleSoft’s modern data analytics framework. As MuleSoft continues to grow, the data platform engineering team encountered some challenges with the data transformations. The session dives deeper into the specific challenges faced by the team and demonstrates how dbt’s features including CI/CD, testing, documentation and lineage help overcome these challenges.

Speakers: Yijun Cao, Data Platform Engineer, Salesforce; Dakota Kelley, Solution Architect, phData

Register for Coalesce at https://coalesce.getdbt.com

dbt migration and audit strategy - Coalesce 2023

In this session, phData talks through their experiences dealing with migrations: how to plan for one, how to handle refactoring code, and the difficulty of auditing. This session is especially helpful for organizations that are looking to transition to dbt Cloud, as it provides helpful tips for laying the foundations for a new system and doing the migration right.

Speakers: Dakota Kelley, Solution Architect, phData; Chris Johnson, Solutions Architect, phData

Register for Coalesce at https://coalesce.getdbt.com