Daniel Campos

Daniel Campos

Software Engineer, Snowflake

Daniel Campos is a software engineer at Snowflake, working on Retrieval, Search and RAG. Before joining Snowflake, he worked on retrieval and LLM compression at companies like Neeva, Walmart, Qualtrics, Microsoft and Neural Magic. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a Master’s in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor’s from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In his research, he helped create the MS MARCO family of datasets and has coordinated research tracks at NIST’s TREC Conferences since 2019.

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Scaling vLLM for Embeddings: 16x Throughput and Cost Reduction

Learn how we increased embedding throughput 3x in Snowflake Cortex—and 16x vs. vLLM—through smarter serialization, tokenization, and GPU optimization.

Charles Xu|Juncheng Yang|Jerry Luo|Daniel Campos|Yuxiong He|Samyam Rajbhandari|Snowflake AI Research

MAY 29, 2025|8 min read

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Evaluating and Optimizing Search Quality: Seamlessly Tune Your Snowflake Cortex Search Service with an LLM Judge

Improve search quality effortlessly with LLMs. Discover how Snowflake’s Cortex Search leverages AI to fine-tune retrieval & ranking — without costly manual tuning.

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MAR 04, 2025|17 min read

Snowflake’s Cortex Search: Unmatched Search Quality and Simplicity for All Your Search Needs

Unlock insights from unstructured data with Snowflake Cortex Search — delivering unmatched search quality, easy SQL-based deployment and AI-powered retrieval.

FEB 13, 2025|21 min read

Snowflake’s Arctic Embed 2.0 Goes Multilingual: Empowering Global-Scale Retrieval with Inference Efficiency and High-Quality Retrieval

Snowflake’s Arctic Embed 2.0 Goes Multilingual: Empowering Global-Scale Retrieval with Inference Efficiency and High-Quality Retrieval

DEC 04, 2024|6 min read

Straight A's: You Can’t Spell RAG Without Augmentation

Straight A's: You Can’t Spell RAG Without Augmentation

SEP 19, 2024|8 min read

Snowflake Invests in Contextual AI to Make It Easier for Enterprises to Deploy RAG Applications in the AI Data Cloud

Snowflake Invests in Contextual AI to Make It Easier for Enterprises to Deploy RAG Applications in the AI Data Cloud

Snowflake Invests in Contextual AI to Make It Easier for Enterprises to Deploy RAG Applications in the AI Data Cloud