Jon "Natty" Natkins

@natty

Sales Engineer

Open Source

Product Management

Sales

Data Engineering

Beer Enthusiast

Blogger

Motorcycle Rider

Dog Dad

Hiker

Angel investor

I'm a data guy who loves talking about analytics, open-source, and personal finance

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I'm open to

speaking at events,

beta testing new products,

advising companies,

and content creation.

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Resume

Apr 2021 - Present

Solutions Architect, dbt Labs

Apr 2020 - Apr 2021

Product Manager, Corelight

Dec 2018 - Apr 2020

Product Manager, Heap

Jul 2014 - Dec 2018

Solutions Engineering Lead, StreamSets

Portfolio

So ProPublica published another "rich-people-don't-pay-taxes" article the other day, this time about Peter Thiel, and it is simultaneously horrifying and fascinating. Apparently a number of the Pay...

https://semistructured.substack.com/p/grant-date-vs-vesting-start-date

Data infrastructure has been the most consistent theme in my career, and after a few years away from the GTM front lines, I'm thrilled to join the pre-sales team at Fishtown Analytics. I discovered...

I've had a number of folks ask me when it makes sense to use open-source as a business strategy. It's a pretty tricky question to answer, and there's no right or wrong answer, but I decided to put ...