George Caragea
Enginering at Snowflake
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Caragea is an experienced tech leader and engineering strategist with a decade focused on database internals, 3+ years in backend application development, and a Ph.D. in low-level compiler optimizations. He has driven query processing, workload management, and ML integration for large-scale data warehouses at AWS Redshift, and later shaped security and cloud engineering as a senior staff engineer before joining Snowflake. Comfortable moving between research and production, he combines compiler- and many-core research (including cycle-accurate simulation and GCC passes) with pragmatic systems design to squeeze measurable performance gains. Known for steering technical roadmaps and cross-functional teams, he consistently takes projects from prototype through execution and operations. Based in Redwood City, he brands himself as a "Data Systems Builder" and brings a rare depth in both compiler-level tuning and distributed analytics systems.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of MarylandPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyLiceul Mircea cel Batran
Github Skills (54)
postgresql9
parallel9
greenplum9
analytics9
data-warehouse9
data-platform9
sql9
amazon9
amazon-redshift9
database9
machine-learning8
warehouse8
hawq8
steamos7
migration7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gcaragea/incubator-hawq
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 8 branches, 2 comments in 5 months
javaincubatingapachehawq
gcaragea/gpdb
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 15 branches, 1 comment in 8 months
sqlgreenplumpivotaldatabasegreenplum-database
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