Summary
Christian Lopez-farnes is a Sr. Customer Success and Product GTM strategist with eight years of engineering and pre/post-sales experience across Alteryx, Snowflake, Cloudera and Hortonworks, specializing in product incubation, AI/ML adoption, and technical enablement. He blends a computer engineering foundation from San José State with hands-on delivery—building demos, POCs, and pipelines (including an Edge2AI miniature self-driving car)—to translate complex technical capabilities into commercial outcomes. At Snowflake he drove exceptional quota attainment and new logo acquisition, and at Alteryx he has shaped global demo assets and led technical closure on enterprise deals. Comfortable bridging R&D, sales, and customer success, he focuses on accelerating adoption of analytic and data-platform products for fast-growing organizations. Based in San Francisco, he maintains a public technical presence (c-lopez.com) that reflects his mix of engineering rigor and go-to-market craft.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at San José State University
English, Spanish