Building a Pragmatic Data Platform with dbt and Snowflake – The Theory and the Practice

Roberto Zagni & Saska Saarioja

Roberto is a senior leader with deep, hands-on expertise in data architecture, software development, and agile methodologies. As the author of *Data Engineering with dbt*, he explores key disciplines essential for modern Data Engineering projects—covering everything from Agile and DataOps to Data Modelling and Architecture for the Modern Data Stack. With a strong focus on Software Engineering best practices, his book offers a practical, hands-on approach, guiding readers through a real-world project using actual code and data in dbt Cloud.

Saska is the Data Engineering Lead at Kemira – a chosen chemistry partner for water-intensive industries worldwide. He has extensive experience in cloud first data warehousing and analytics tools, such as Snowflake and Databricks.