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+id: original-dbt-athena-maintainers
+title: The Original dbt-athena Maintainers
+description: |
+  The original dbt-athena Maintainers is a group of 5 people—Jérémy Guiselin, Mattia, Jesse Dobbelaere, Serhii Dimchenko, and Nicola Corda—who met via dbt Slack in the #db-athena channel, with the aim to make make <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/core/connect-data-platform/athena-setup">dbt-athena</a> a production-ready adapter.
+In the first periods, Winter 2022 and Spring 2023, we focused on contributing directly to the adapter, adding relevant features like Iceberg and Lake Formation support, and stabilizing some internal behaviour.
+On a second iteration our role was triaging, providing community support and bug fixing. We encouraged community members to make their first contributions, and helped them to merge their PRs.
+image: /img/community/spotlight/dbt-athena-groupheadshot.png
+location: Europe
+jobTitle: A group of data-engineers
+companyName: Mix of companies
+organization: dbt-athena (since November 2022)
+socialLinks:
+  - name: Jérémy's LinkedIn
+    link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrmyy/
+  - name: Mattia's LinkedIn
+    link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattia-sappa/
+  - name: Jesse's LinkedIn
+    link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dobbelaerejesse/
+  - name: Serhii's LinkedIn
+    link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/serhii-dimchenko-075b3061/
+  - name: Nicola's LinkedIn
+    link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolacorda/
+dateCreated: 2024-11-06 
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+communityAwardYear: 2024 
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+
+## When did you join the dbt community and in what way has it impacted your career?
+
+The dbt community allowed the dbt-athena maintainers to meet each other, and share the common goal of making the dbt-athena adapter production-ready.
+
+## Which dbt Community leader do you identify with? How are you looking to grow your leadership in the dbt community?
+
+As we grow, we are looking to embody democratic leadership.
+
+## What have you learned from community members? What do you hope others can learn from you?
+
+We learned that the power of the community was endless. People started to share best practises, and some of the best practises were incorporated directly in dbt-athena, allowing people to run the adapter smoothly in their production environment.
+We reached a point where people started to ask advice for their AWS architecture, which we found pretty awesome.  
+