Alex Ross
Principal Solutions Engineer at Snowflake
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Ross is a Principal Solutions Engineer with 11 years of experience helping enterprise organisations unlock the value of modern data platforms, currently focusing on Snowflake's Data Cloud from his base in Stony Stratford, UK. He has a strong track record at the intersection of analytics, data platform partnerships and presales leadership, previously shaping Tableau adoption across the UKI at senior and director levels within Salesforce. Alex excels at translating C-level strategy into technical proofs-of-value and go-to-market integrations with partners like dbt Labs and Snowflake, and he has led teams to produce verticalised demo assets and operational improvements that scale presales impact. His background combines hands-on technical delivery—developing connectors and early software integrations—with strategic enablement of major retail and enterprise customers. Comfortable presenting to executive audiences and driving cross-organisational initiatives, he brings both a mathematician’s analytical rigour and practical experience from roles dating back to CERN and enterprise data quality work. One less obvious strength is his ability to bridge vendor partnerships and product engineering to accelerate adoption across hybrid cloud landscapes.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Mathematics With Engineering, BSc Mathematics With Engineering at University of NottinghamMSc Industrial Computing Systems, MSc Industrial Computing Systems at Nottingham Trent University
French
Github Skills (6)
data-connector10
twitter9
tableau8
dbt7
python2
postgresql1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexfrancisross/TabExport
Nov 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 13 pushes in 8 months
alexfrancisross/TwitterWebDataConnector
May 2015 - Jun 2020
Tableau Twitter Web Connector
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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