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Over a decade ago, Snowflake co-founders and engineers, Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes, built a cloud data platform in the cloud from scratch. Today, their vision and values remain at the heart of our work and continue to inspire everyone who has joined the team on this journey.

Our forward-thinking technical team continues to push the boundaries of AI, ML, and other cutting-edge technologies while solving real and meaningful challenges for our customers. The powerful technologies we create are vital to our customers’ ability to execute their data and AI strategies, making enterprise AI easy, efficient, and trusted.

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Built[By] Devin Petersohn

Snowpark Pandas API

Devin is a Sr. Software Engineer and Python Architect at Snowflake, working on Snowpark pandas, and other Python projects. Prior to his undergrad, Devin was a Korean linguist in the U.S. Marine Corps. Devin has a PhD from UC Berkeley, where he created Modin, an open-source library for scalable pandas operations. He previously co-founded Ponder with his PhD advisor, Aditya Parameswaran, and another PhD student, Doris Lee, which was acquired by Snowflake in 2023. Devin has two patents on dataframes and multiple publications on dataframes and genomic sequence analysis.

title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Python Architect'
location: 'Remote, KS'
interests: 'Broad Area of Interactive Data Analytics and Data Frames, Taking Long Drives in the Minivan with his Kids, Fixing Things Around the House'
connect with devin: LinkedIn, GitHub

How Devin Built pandas on Snowflake

Built[By] Juliane Waack

Accelerating TopK Queries

Juliane Waack is a Software Engineer based in Berlin, Germany. She graduated from Hasso Platner Institute (HPI) with a Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering. In 2024, she presented at Berlin Buzzwords on the latest optimizations to the Snowflake Cloud Database for speeding up TopK queries.

title: 'Software Engineer, Search and Pruning'
location: 'Berlin, Germany'
interests: 'Search and Pruning, Singing, Board Games, Knitting '
connect with juliane: LinkedIn

How Juliane Accelerated TopK Queries

Built[By] Bowei Chen

Optimized Network Encryption Between Compute Nodes

Bowei Chen is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Query Processing at Snowflake, where he's been a key contributor for the past six years. Before joining Snowflake, Bowei interned at Google and served as a Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned his Master’s in Computer Science.

title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Query Processing'
location: 'San Mateo, CA'
interests: 'Query Optimization, Query Execution, Cooking, Hiking’
connect with bowei: LinkedIn

How Bowei Built Optimized Network Encryption Between Compute Nodes

Built[By] Murray Stokely

Tiny House, Infra Efficiency

Murray is an Area Architect for Efficiency at Snowflake, bringing together engineering leads, data scientists, and finance partners across the company to drive efficiency goals. Before joining Snowflake in 2022, he led Engineering teams at Facebook, Apple, and Google. Murray has published some of his cutting-edge research in areas of distributed storage, economic models for cloud resource allocation, and statistical computing. He has 25 years of experience and recently finished a Master's in Data Science from UC Berkeley.

title: 'Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Efficiency'
location: 'San Mateo, CA'
interests: 'Distributed Systems, Open Source, Software Engineering, Statistical Computing' AND 'Cycling, Skiing, Spending Time Outdoors with Family and Friends’
connect with murray: LinkedIn

How Murray Built Snowflake's Tiny House Initiative

Built[By] Björn Daase

Improved Hash Join Broadcast Decisions

Björn is a Software Engineer based in Berlin, Germany. He received his Master of Science from Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and started an internship with Snowflake after graduating. Since joining as a full-time hire, Björn has been working with teams around the world to make Snowflake run faster and faster every day.

title: 'Software Engineer, Query Execution'
location: 'Berlin, Germany'
interests: 'SQL Execution, Query Optimization, Field Hockey, Traveling'
connect with björn: LinkedIn

How Björn Improved Hash Join Broadcast Decisions

slide 2 of 2 "I like that I'm able to work on features that customers will actually see and use as an intern, and my team is fantastic. It's definitely been tricky figuring out the transition to remote, but I think that Snowflake has done it pretty well -- the team morale and intern events still let me get to know others outside of work!” AMY XU Software Engineer Intern

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