Nell Thomas
Vice President of Data at Shopify leading a 400-person data organization, with prior leadership roles at Etsy, Facebook, and the Democratic National Committee and deep experience across data infrastructure, analytics, and AI adoption.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 1h 23min
Your VP Is Doing a Rogue Analysis in Cursor Right Now — with Nell Thomas
Nell Thomas, VP of Data at Shopify who has led data teams at Etsy, Facebook, and the DNC, maps the modern data stack and the roles that make it work. She talks data quality, building trust with scrutiny and blameless postmortems. She describes scaling a 400-person org, why semantic layers are so hard, and how AI is changing experiments and metric investigations.
