Thierry Cruanes (Cloud Data / Database Architecture) at Snowflake — San Mateo, United States

Thierry Cruanes co-founded Snowflake alongside Benoit Dageville and Marcin Zukowski, designing the cloud-native query processing engine that separates storage and compute — Snowflake's core architectural innovation. As CTO, he has continued to drive Snowflake's engineering evolution including Snowpark for Python, Streamlit integration, and the Cortex AI features. A brilliant database systems engineer whose technical choices made Snowflake possible.