Ember Crooks
Principal Performance Architect, Applied Field Engineering at Snowflake
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolEmber Crooks is a Principal Performance Architect with 20+ years of deep database expertise, specializing in SQL performance and large-scale relational systems—especially Db2, MySQL, and Snowflake. Currently helping customers and internal teams at Snowflake, Ember combines hands-on query tuning and cloud experience (AWS/GCP) with a long history of automating and containerizing databases using Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Liquibase. Comfortable as a senior individual contributor, they mentor engineers, run technical office hours, and have presented widely at IDUG while authoring 500+ technical posts on datageek.blog. Ember’s background includes leading DB2 teams, shrinking migration windows by two-thirds during complex cloud moves, and shaping SOC 2 evidence for a Kubernetes-based DBaaS—skills that bridge deep internals with practical operational engineering. Open to roles outside the United States, they bring proven cross-cultural experience and a knack for turning intricate performance problems into teachable, repeatable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems at Metropolitan State University of Denver
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Github Skills (24)
wake-on-lan7
sqlalchemy7
apache-zeppelin6
jupyter-notebook6
database6
db2luw6
sql6
ipython-magic6
docker6
db26
pyspark6
ipython6
jdbc6
python6
sql-client6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ecrooks/db2_hello_world
Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
Collection of scripts used to connect to Db2 from various programming languages
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 6 months
pythondb2database-accessprogramming-languageslanguages
ecrooks/db2_and_jupyter_notebooks
Apr 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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