Pete Hunt, a founding member of the React.js team at Facebook and co-founder of Smyte, announces he has joined Elementl (Dagster Labs) to lead engineering. He draws parallels between Dagster's current position in the data engineering space and React's early days competing against AngularJS and jQuery, highlighting shared strengths: solid fundamentals, a paradigm-shifting programming model (Software-Defined Assets), and strong ecosystem integrations. His motivation stems from firsthand experience with the widespread pain of unmanageable Python scripts and cron jobs in data pipelines at both Smyte and Twitter.
