Tristan Handy

Tristan Handy is the co-founder and former CEO of dbt Labs, a data infrastructure company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to founding the enterprise, he held various operational and engineering roles where he recognized the need for better analytics workflows. Drawing on his background as a software engineer, he initially built the core data transformation tool as an open-source project under the startup's original name, Fishtown Analytics. Under his executive leadership, the platform gained substantial adoption among enterprise data teams and secured venture capital backing from prominent institutional investors, including Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. The software firm ultimately reached a valuation exceeding $222 million following its Series B funding round. Today, Handy's professional focus remains centered on advancing modern data stack infrastructure and creating scalable developer tools for the broader analytics community.