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OCT 23, 2025|5 min read
Chris Child
Chris Child currently serves as the VP of Product, Data Engineering at Snowflake, where he oversees Snowflake’s data engineering, open lakehouse, open source, and developer products. Since joining Snowflake in 2018, Chris has focused on product experiences. He most recently served as VP, Worldwide Sales Engineering at Snowflake, leading the company’s global sales engineering team and hearing first-hand from customers how they use Snowflake’s product portfolio to drive value for their businesses.
Prior to joining Snowflake, Chris led product teams at a number of companies specializing in data, including Segment, Salesforce, RelateIQ, and Foursquare. Chris also spent time as both an early stage and late stage technology investor.
He is an alum of MIT and Stanford and loves to be doing anything outdoors with his wife Lyndsey and three kids.
