Benjamin Owad
Software Engineer at Snowflake
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Owad is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience specializing in database internals and execution engines. He currently works on the OLAP execution engine scanner team at Snowflake, having previously optimized scan performance as a core engineering intern and contributed to Iceberg Parquet correctness. Benjamin has strong research and teaching credentials from Carnegie Mellon, where he implemented complex query unnesting in a modular query optimizer and taught a full Rust course including autograders and course infrastructure. His background spans production-focused systems work—from C++ execution engines and JIT/IR extensions to React dashboards and Android UI—combined with a knack for large-scale refactors and language-level features. He enjoys building “cool stuff” and brings a rare blend of research rigor, production engineering, and curriculum design to database systems. An attention to low-level performance and developer tooling often guides his contributions behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Information Systems, 4.0, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Information Systems, 4.0 at Community College of Allegheny CountyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (141)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jurplel/Synchro
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
Video player with network synchronized playback
Contributions:284 commits, 6 PRs, 346 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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jurplel/lcdprinters
May 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 15 commits, 13 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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