Chase Thomas
Product Owner at Snowflake
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChase Thomas is a product leader with nearly a decade building real-time data and streaming products across cloud-native vendors, currently shaping low-latency ingestion at Snowflake. He brings deep Apache Kafka and stream-processing expertise from Confluent, Splunk, and AWS MSK, pairing open-source stewardship with pragmatic go-to-market and customer enablement. Earlier in his career he translated geotechnical instrumentation needs into profitable data products for major dam projects, giving him uncommon domain experience in real-world sensor systems and remote data acquisition. Chase excels at turning complex distributed systems requirements into delightful customer experiences and scalable roadmaps. He’s equally comfortable diving into new tech—3D printing, Arduinos, or ML-enabled analytics—and enjoys mentoring practical skills to the next generation. Based in Seattle, he combines engineer-level technical fluency with product strategy to drive measurable impact.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science and Business Administration | MS-MBA Business Administration and Engineering, Master of Science and Business Administration | MS-MBA Business Administration and Engineering at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (39)
kraft10
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
kafka-consumer10
confluent9
confluent-kafka9
docker-compose9
sink9
sasl9
connect9
confluent-cloud9
confluent-platform9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
forlack/kafka
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkasinkksqldbkafka-consumer
forlack/analytics
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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