Iβm Mila Page (she/her) a software engineer on the Fusion adapters team at dbt Labs. I develop the dbt framework and dbt Fusion. My work extends across the Fusion adapter layer, ADBC drivers, and core dbt features like authentication and Iceberg support via catalogs.yml.
π I love byte-sized problems. My passions lie in data driven design powered by algebraic data types, FFI, deep systems lore, compilers, and SIMD physics.
βοΈ In my day to day, I enjoy solving application-software problems with the perspective of a former stakeholder!
βοΈ I'm moving deeper into systems development and compilers. This year, I'm:
- Drilling Rust and its compiler, from the stdlib down to the LLVM handles.
- Vibe Coding a personal Terminal App / Database Service called
LearningComputerto explore LLMs and product development. - Apache Iceberg, everywhere Iceberg. dbt Core, dbt Fusion, all sorts of product development.
- Reading Lexi Lambda's lovely blog and looking for all the others I can
- Absorbing the Arrow Spec, ADBC, and more as fast as I can.
- Bootcamping through The Linux Programming Interface & TAPL + the pure mathematics topics underpinning computer science.
ποΈ Iβm always ready to chat about:
- anything logic or applied logic
- open source software and managing an open source community
- data engineering or data warehouse lore
π Need a technical writer or editor? I edited:
- (and helped write passages of) The Informed Company: How to Build a Cloud-Based Data Stack to Explore and Understand Data by Dave Fowler and Matt David of Chartio
- π₯ The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- Boolean blindness
- π₯ Names are not type safety
- "Programming as theory building" by Naur
πΊοΈ I train between Seattle πΊπΈ and the Greater Vancouver π¨π¦ area. If I'm in your neighborhood, I always enjoy a real-world walk or a chat over coffee/food.



