Thierry Cruanes
Co-founder of Snowflake who oversees its technology vision; formerly led query optimization work at Oracle
Thierry Cruanes is a co-founder of Snowflake, where Cruanes oversees the company's technology vision and takes part in key areas of product development. Before Snowflake, Cruanes spent 13 years at Oracle on the optimization and parallelization layers of Oracle databases, including as lead for the optimization group.1
Career
Cruanes spent seven years at the IBM European Center of Applied Mathematics working on data mining technologies, then 13 years at Oracle on the optimization and parallelization layers of Oracle databases, including as lead for the optimization group.1
Cruanes co-founded Snowflake and oversees its technology vision while remaining involved in key aspects of product development. Cruanes's areas of expertise are query optimization and parallel execution.1
Research
With Benoit Dageville and Marcin Zukowski, Cruanes co-authored "The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse", published in the proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD).2
Work
The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse (external site: doi.org)Published research
Second author of the SIGMOD 2016 paper that describes the architecture of the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse, co-written with Benoit Dageville, Marcin Zukowski and other Snowflake engineers.2
Career timeline
Jun 2016
Co-authored "The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse", published at SIGMOD 2016.2
Other documented roles
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