Hi there! My name is Paulo and I am an analytics/data engineer and endurance runner based in Berlin, Germany. Welcome to my blog.

Top 10 Books Read in 2023

Top 10 Books Read in 2023

Selected quotes from what I considered were the best books I read/listened to in 2023.

Pausing dbt Resources after Pipeline Retirement

Pausing dbt Resources after Pipeline Retirement

A summary of three ideas on pausing dbt resources: leveraging the exclusion flag, disabling resources, and transforming models into analyses

Creating Date Dimensions using dbt in Azure Synapse: Custom Macros

Creating Date Dimensions using dbt in Azure Synapse: Custom Macros

A custom macro to create date dimensions when using the dbt-synapse adapter

Cool dbt Feature: Exposures

Cool dbt Feature: Exposures

A brief introduction to exposures and why they should be in every dbt project

The Nomad Work

The Nomad Work

A list of spots where to do some remote work

Berlin Marathon Data: 1974-2023

Berlin Marathon Data: 1974-2023

Berlin Marathon results among runners from 1974 to 2023, including data from Kaggle for the years 1974-2019 and additional results from 2021-2023