I’m Connor. I’m a data engineer at Harness, based in Arizona. Day-to-day that means around fifty DLT pipelines, transformations in SQLMesh, deploying internal services with our security team, and building an AI app that sits on top of our warehouse and talks to Slack so the rest of the company can ask the data questions in plain English instead of pinging our centralized data team.
I don’t write code because I like writing code. I write code because it’s the fastest way I’ve found to solve the problems I’ve found to be worth solving. That distinction matters to me. The good days are the ones where a pipeline makes someone’s job quieter or a query answers a question that used to require a meeting.
Outside of work I hunt, which is how I ended up caring about geospatial data, public-land boundaries, and the strange politics of who owns what dirt. I keep an eye on what MotherDuck is shipping — they release features faster than I can find excuses to use them, which is a good problem.
What I’m up for #
Open to consulting engagements, especially anything sitting at the intersection of data engineering and geospatial. Curious about federal / GIS roles where the work is closer to land and resources than it is to ad-tech.
Where I’ve been #
Conferences
- dbt Coalesce 2022 — New Orleans, LA
- dbt Coalesce 2023 — San Diego, CA
- WWDVC 2023 — Stowe, VT
- Data Saturday #52 — Oslo, Norway
- AI Council 2026 — San Francisco, CA
Trainings
- Data Vault 2.0 Practitioner — Helsinki, Finland
Get in touch #
- Email — loughondata@protonmail.com
- GitHub — @Doctacon
- LinkedIn — crlough