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Dana Whitfield

Staff data engineer

Twelve years building data platforms for logistics and health, where a wrong number has a cost. I lead the team that keeps them right.

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Career arc

Four versions. One through-line: make the number trustworthy before making it fast.

  1. V1 · 2014–2017AnalystLearned that a dashboard is a claim.2 roles
  2. V2 · 2017–2020Data engineerBuilt the pipelines the claims rested on.2 roles
  3. V3 · 2020–2022Senior data engineerMade the pipelines prove themselves.1 role
  4. V4 · 2022–nowStaff data engineerLeads the team that keeps them right.current

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V4 · Staff data engineer · 2022–now

How it began

Hired to keep one pipeline alive. Stayed to rebuild forty.

Growth

From owning a pipeline to owning the promise it makes downstream.

Evidence

−41% latency · 0 incidents in four quarters · 120 dbt models migrated

Selected impact

−41%

Pipeline latency at Northwind Freight, 2024

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0

Reporting incidents in the last four quarters

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120

dbt models migrated with no metric drift

evidence attached · opens

6

Engineers led through the 2024 platform migration

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Selected work & evidence

Case study cover

Freight event pipeline

Case study · 2024 · opens a lightbox

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Data-quality contract

Case study · 2023 · opens a lightbox

Case study cover

Warehouse cost model

Case study · 2025 · opens a lightbox

Expertise

Data platforms

Pipeline design · Orchestration · Data modeling

Reliability

Data quality · Observability · Incident review

Leadership

Team of 6 · Hiring · Mentoring

In their words

“Dana is the person you want when the data is wrong and the deadline is not moving. She fixes the number first, then the process that let it slip.”
Marcus Bell · VP Engineering, Northwind Freight · read in full →
“Every metric her team ships comes with the reason to trust it.”
Priya Anand · Director of Operations, Northwind Freight · read in full →

Writing, speaking & credentials

Writing

A pipeline is a promise · 2025
What a data-quality contract actually says · 2024

Speaking & credentials

Data Council Austin, 2025 · talk
B.S. Statistics, UT Austin · AWS Data Analytics Specialty

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