# Dori Wilson

> Dori Wilson is a San Francisco data scientist, startup operator, and co-founder and founding CEO of Thorntale, a YC Winter 2024 presentation-software company now listed as inactive. Her career includes the San Francisco Fed, Uber, CircleCI, Mux, Pave, and Recce; recent event materials identify her as a senior data scientist at Chime. She runs Data Debug SF and co-hosts Data Renegades and Chats with My Tech Friends.

- **Role:** Senior Data Scientist at Chime
- **Organizations:** Chime, Recce, Thorntale, Pave, Mux, CircleCI, Uber, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Data Debug SF, Data Renegades, Chats with My Tech Friends, Y Combinator
- **Education:** B.A. Economics; Mathematics minor, Sewanee: The University of the South, M.A. Economics; left the PhD program, University of California, Santa Barbara, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Co-founded Thorntale with Ellen Hui and John Stimac and participated in YC W24., Built product analytics functions at Mux and Pave., Runs the monthly Data Debug SF meetup.

## Career timeline

- **Before Thorntale** — Analyzed and presented data at the SF Fed, Uber, CircleCI, Mux, and Pave; built product analytics functions at Mux and Pave.
- **2023-2024** — CEO and founder of Thorntale, according to her personal biography.
- **2024** — Thorntale participated in YC Winter 2024.
- **2025** — Published technical and data-validation writing at Recce, where she held a Head of Data & Growth role.
- **2025-11** — Data Renegades launched with CL Kao and Wilson as co-hosts.
- **2026** — Recent event materials list her as Senior Data Scientist at Chime.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Thorntale with Ellen Hui and John Stimac and participated in YC W24.
- Built product analytics functions at Mux and Pave.
- Runs the monthly Data Debug SF meetup.
- Co-hosts Data Renegades with CL Kao and Chats with My Tech Friends with Natasha Golubev.
- Documented a podcast production workflow that she reports reduced a full day of work to about two hours.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Her podcast directory lists Data Renegades episode 13, Building Trillion-Scale Data Pipelines with Josh Wills, dated June 16.
- **2026-05** — Nexla published an interview with Wilson on data validation and storytelling on May 19, identifying her as Head of Data at Recce at recording/publication.
- **2026-03** — Published A Practical Guide to AI Skills for Analytics Engineering on March 31.
- **2026-02** — Published her February Data Debug meetup recap and an essay on persistent context for AI tools.

## Links

- Website: https://doriwilson.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doris-lee-wilson/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/data_dori
- GitHub: https://github.com/doriwilson
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/doriwilson.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/data.dori/

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Last updated: 2026-10-21