Ethan Young
Staff Software Engineer at Snowflake
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Young is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building low-level systems and cloud infrastructure, currently advancing Snowflake's platform after prior roles at Apple and Microsoft focused on virtualization and memory systems. He blends a double STEM background in Computer Science and Industrial & Systems Engineering with hands-on expertise in C/C++ and distributed deployment tooling, delivering production features across Hyper-V, Azure, and large-scale cloud services. Ethan founded and grew an interdisciplinary student innovation org, led a $50M student-fee oversight committee, and has a track record of translating analytics into millions in operational savings. Comfortable taking initiative, he pairs an entrepreneurial mindset with rigorous engineering practices and a focus on real-world impact rather than vanity metrics. Based in Seattle, he brings leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and a history of shipping security and automation tools at scale. Notably, his career threads together virtualization intern work, security tooling at Target, and impactful manufacturing analytics—showing depth from firmware-level memory management to product-facing cloud systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Degree, Computer Sciences and Industrial and Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science Degree, Computer Sciences and Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (23)
kernel6
serverless6
operating-system6
system-programming6
microservices5
linux5
distributed-systems5
benchmarking5
fat5
benchmark5
cpython5
gvisor4
python3
sql3
serverless-architectures3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
EthanGYoung/gvisor_analysis
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
A collection of programs used for benchmarking gVisor performance.
Contributions:70 commits, 15 PRs, 107 pushes in 2 months
gvisorbenchmarkingbenchmarkperformanceprograms
EthanGYoung/EthanGYoung.github.io
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 92 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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