Blog/Zachary Blackwood

Zachary Blackwood

Staff Data Scientist

Zachary Blackwood is a Staff Data Scientist at Snowflake, where he builds AI-powered tooling to make data engineering faster and more autonomous. He focuses on building agents and tools and applying them to production challenges, eliminating manual toil, and enabling small teams to manage infrastructure that would otherwise require many more people. Zachary presented this work at Snowflake Summit 2026.

Oct 23, 2026AI & ML

Zachary Blackwood

Beyond Adoption: How to Measure Whether AI Is Changing the Work That Matters

The Path to Autonomous Data Engineering: Fixing Data Pipeline Failures with AI

How We Built an Internal Library That Powers Half of Snowflake's Streamlit Apps

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