Pedram Navid, a data engineer, shares his experience with Dagster, a company building a product purpose-built for users. He was drawn to Dagster after hearing Nick Schrock discuss its approach to orchestration on the Data Engineering Podcast. Pedram has been working with Dagster for over a year, integrating it into projects and finding the team's mix of performance and compassion impressive. He considers himself lucky to be part of Dagster Labs, which is pursuing more than just good enough tooling in data engineering. The company values user feedback and encourages people to reach out with questions or comments.