Jason Wolfe
Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Wolfe is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bellevue, WA with 11 years of experience building search, analytics, and performance-focused systems across startups and large companies. He has deep hands-on expertise from founding teams and scaling orgs—spanning individual contributor work at Indeed (where he launched React front ends and internal analytics tooling) to principal engineering at a seed-stage security startup and now senior engineering at Snowflake. Jason contributes to open-source search infrastructure (notably enhancing the Rust-based Tantivy library used for full-text search) and brings a practical bias for making low-level components public and performant. He combines product-minded engineering with operational rigor, having led team growth from a handful to 30 engineers while shipping systems for query understanding, ranking, and A/B analysis. Collected across roles, his background reflects a rare mix of search algorithm know-how, distributed analytics, and startup-to-enterprise delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer science, Bachelor's degree, Computer science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (12)
search-engine10
rust10
indexed9
indexer9
indexing9
algorithms8
algorithm8
data-structures8
data-structure8
integrations7
api-design7
api7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
quickwit-oss/tantivy
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jason's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Tantivy search engine library. Their work includes making internal components public, such as `MultiValueIntFastFieldWriter` and `BytesFastFieldWriter`. They implemented features like fast fields for arbitrary bytes, contributing to data indexing and merging capabilities. Furthermore, they also modified code related to field norm calculations and added support for range queries.
full-text-searchrustfull-textindexingapache
jason-wolfe/tantivy-viewer
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:66 commits, 32 pushes in 4 months
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