James Hunter
Senior Software Developer at Snowflake
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Hunter is a senior software developer with nine years of experience building high-performance database and distributed systems, currently at Snowflake after a multi-year tenure at AWS. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has blended that theoretical rigor with practical engineering across Microsoft Research, Oracle, and cloud database teams. His work spans in-memory key-value stores, blockchain databases, query processing, durability layers, and transaction/I/O engines for systems like Aurora PostgreSQL and Neptune. Known for turning mathematical insight into production-grade storage and query optimizations, he has repeatedly delivered durability and replication solutions for log-first distributed databases. Based in Redmond, he bridges research and product engineering, bringing deep systems design experience to large-scale cloud data platforms.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.A mathematics, B.A mathematics at Amherst College
Github Skills (9)
logging10
persistent10
concurrent10
indexing10
in-memory9
operation9
key-value-store9
key-value8
persistent-storage8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
microsoft/FASTER
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Fast persistent recoverable log and key-value store + cache, in C# and C++.
Contributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 28 days
recoverableoperationpersistent-storageindexinglogging
jemalloc/jemalloc
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:5 comments, 1 issue in 8 days
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