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Pedram Navid

Head of Data Engineering & DevRel, Dagster Labs

Pedram is the Head of Data Engineering and DevRel at Dagster Labs where he manages the devrel, marketing, and data teams with the goal of helping developers be more successful with Dagster. He has built Dagster integrations, the Ask AI agent, and rewritten docs from the ground up. Prior to Dagster, he was the Head of Data at Hightouch, is an avid bird watcher, and a father of twin girls.

Pedram Navid

Sessions / 2025 / 1 talk

  • Write Less More: How Dagster Rebuilt Our Docs from the Ground Up

    Documentation can become a critical pain point for technical teams, transforming from a helpful resource into a maintenance nightmare. In this candid session, Dagster reveals their radical approach to documentation reconstruction, demonstrating how a complete ground-up rebuild can revolutionize user experience. Attendees will dive deep into the strategic decision to completely overhaul their documentation, exploring the challenges of incremental improvements and the transformative power of a fresh perspective. Learn how radical rethinking can turn documentation from a source of user frustration into a powerful communication tool that truly serves the community.

Sessions / 2023 / 1 talk

  • Hot or Not? Trends & Buzzwords in Data

    Barry McCardel welcomes panelists from DBT Labs, Hex and West Marin Data to discuss what data trends they are most excited about. We talk about the world of streaming, data teams doing more with less, data meshes, innovations in different kids of SQL plus more!

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