Quinn Batten
I help engineering leaders print money
At my consultancy, Winesap Labs, I help executives and engineering leaders make more money by improving their team’s workflows, optimizing AI usage, and fixing their data pipelines.
If you notice any of the following happening at your company or on your team, I can probably help you.
- You’re paying a lot for AI tooling, but profits don’t seem to be rising.
- Customers are complaining about bugs and downtime, even though you’re shipping more features than you were pre-AI.
- People are confused about what internal data is available or what tables they’re supposed to query in order to answer their questions.
- Your data pipelines are slow, expensive, and unreliable.
I help you and your family stay safe and stay in touch
At Senior Computer Class, I teach you and your family (especially parents and grandparents) how to stay safe from scams and how to use phones and computers easily.
Reach out if you want to make sure that you, your parents, or grandparents are:
- Protected from scams, hacks, and fraud
- Able to talk, text, and stay in touch easily, and
- Capable of managing bills, medical appointments, email, and taking care of everything else that we do on our computers.
Career & Background
- Most recently, I was an engineering leader at Grata ( acquired by Datasite). I led the data team as we launched in the EU, more than doubled our data coverage globally, and vastly improved data quality. Along the way, we got acquired and made two acquisitions and completely rebuilt the data and engineering organization, all within 2 years.
- At Volume, I created and led the data platform team. We migrated everything onto infra-as-code, which enabled us to rapidly spin up new platforms for several acquired companies. We also decreased data load latency by 3x saved the company around $2M in Snowflake and AWS spend over 3 years (yes that number is big for an org that size, it’s a funny story — feel free to ask me about it).
- In 2018, I attended The Recurse Center, a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers. I highly recommend it, and it’s free to attend. Get in touch if you’re interested!
- I graduated Carleton College in 2017 with a BA in Economics. After graduating, I worked there full time for a year TA’ing sculpture classes and managing the wood and metal shops.
More about me
I’m based in South Carolina, but I’m often in NYC or SF.
I love woodworking, drawing, sci-fi, bikes, and urbanism, so you’ll see me write about those on my blog here too.