Product and Engineering Speakers

With 15+ years at Oracle, Vinay held senior engineering and management roles in the Database kernel team. He was a co-inventor of RAC Cache Fusion and Active Data Guard Standby, with engineering responsibilities for the RDBMS High Availability roadmap including Exadata. He holds multiple software patents in standby systems, distributed recovery, OLTP performance and fault tolerance. At data unicorn Delphix, Vinay led the development of the database virtualization products for Oracle, SQL Server and DB2. In 2013, Vinay started Delphix’s Solution Architecture practice and made a career transition from building enterprise software to driving product adoption in the field. Growing a global team of 20 solution architects in 4 years, Vinay had the opportunity to work closely with Delphix’s enterprise customers (including Apple, Cisco, Walmart.com, Telecom Italia, Wells Fargo) to accelerate distribution and masking of their largest relational databases and migration to cloud-based microservices. After this, he joined Xcalar, where he owned field deployment for a scale-out relational compute platform available in all public clouds that competed with Spark Core and Redshift. Customer projects at Wells Fargo, Wellington Capital and PRGX provided experience in the challenges of delivering data to business applications within legacy Hadoop-based and early public cloud data lakes.

Grzegorz (Greg) Czajkowski, a distributed systems and organizations scaling expert, is Senior Vice President of Engineering and Support at Snowflake. Prior to Snowflake, Greg spent 13 years at Google, where he was VP of Engineering responsible for a broad portfolio of Google Cloud data analytics and machine learning products and for internal services addressing data analytics needs of all of Google’s businesses. Before Google, Greg spent six years at Sun Microsystems, working on Java runtime environments and operating systems. Greg has a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree from AGH Krakow, Poland. He holds over 50 patents.

Benoit co-founded Snowflake and currently serves as President of the Product division. Benoit is a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning database systems. Prior to founding Snowflake, Benoit was with Oracle for 15 years as a lead architect for parallel execution in Oracle RAC and a key architect in the SQL Manageability group. Prior to Oracle, Benoit worked at Bull Information Systems. He helped define the architecture and lead database performance efforts for Bull’s parallel systems. Benoit has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Parallel Database Systems and holds more than 80 patents.

Grzegorz (Greg) Czajkowski, a distributed systems and organizations scaling expert, is Senior Vice President of Engineering and Support at Snowflake. Prior to Snowflake, Greg spent 13 years at Google, where he was VP of Engineering responsible for a broad portfolio of Google Cloud data analytics and machine learning products and for internal services addressing data analytics needs of all of Google’s businesses. Before Google, Greg spent six years at Sun Microsystems, working on Java runtime environments and operating systems. Greg has a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree from AGH Krakow, Poland. He holds over 50 patents.

Omer brings over 17 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity to his role as Head of Cyber Security Industry at Snowflake. Prior to Snowflake, Omer was Vice President of Security Operations at a global security services provider and served as an officer in the prestigious IDF Intelligence Corps 8200 Unit. Omer frequently speaks at cloud security forums on the movement towards High Fidelity Security Analytics (HiFiSec) and is passionate about tackling long-standing cybersecurity challenges through innovation.

Benoit co-founded Snowflake and currently serves as President of the Product division. Benoit is a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning database systems. Prior to founding Snowflake, Benoit was with Oracle for 15 years as a lead architect for parallel execution in Oracle RAC and a key architect in the SQL Manageability group. Prior to Oracle, Benoit worked at Bull Information Systems. He helped define the architecture and lead database performance efforts for Bull’s parallel systems. Benoit has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Parallel Database Systems and holds more than 80 patents.

Stuart Ozer has spent much of his career focused on customers and technologies enabling Data Warehousing and Analytics at scale. Stuart co-founded a consulting firm helping customers design and deploy solutions on Oracle, Teradata, RedBrick and similar platforms in the 1990s.  Later, his team was hired by Microsoft to build internal clickstream analytics and ad-targeting architectures using a variety of industry leading relational database and data mining tools.  During his 18-year tenure at Microsoft, Stuart helped evolve the SQL Server platform to address modern analytics workloads and managed an international team who worked directly with customers creating some of the most complex and ambitious applications on the platform. Stuart has also done advanced work in BioInformatics and spent 2 years in Microsoft Research working with database pioneer Jim Gray.  The team’s mission was to empower scientists in academic institutions with modern data management and analytics techniques and tools.

Mario Duarte has 19 years of experience as a security professional working in the retail, health care, and financial sectors. He has built and managed security teams, developed and implemented security programs, and managed PCI and HIPAA compliance initiatives for medium and large organizations. Mario holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of San Francisco.

Martin Hentschel received a PhD in Computer Science from the Systems Group at ETH Zurich in 2012. He joined Microsoft Bing as a data scientist where he built products integrating data from social networks into the Bing search engine. In 2014, he joined Snowflake where he is working on security, metadata management, and dedicated services.

Dr. Max Heimel is a Lead Engineer for the core database engine of the Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse. In this role, he is responsible for ensuring speed, functionality, and correctness of queries running on Snowflake. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on modern database architectures, has authored multiple scientific database publications with hundreds of citations, and has worked at IBM and Google before joining Snowflake.

Allison Lee joined Snowflake in 2013 as part of the founding engineering team and led the development of the query optimizer. She now heads Snowflake’s SQL engineering team, which owns the core query processing capabilities of Snowflake, including query optimization, query execution, and our internal data file format. Before Snowflake, she was at Oracle, where she worked on the query optimizer for the Oracle RDBMS.  During her time at Oracle, Allison was focused on bridging the gap between query optimization and execution through adaptive query optimization. Allison holds over a dozen patents related to database query processing. She received Bachelors and Masters degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Christian Kleinerman is a database expert with over 20 years of experience working with various database technologies. He has more than 15 years of management and leadership experience. At Microsoft, he served as General Manager of the Data Warehousing product unit where he was responsible for a broad portfolio of products. Most recently, Christian worked at Google leading YouTube’s infrastructure and data systems. Christian earned his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Los Andes University, and he currently holds more than 10 patents in database technologies.