Jeff Plaisance
Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Plaisance is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with 15 years building high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems and data infrastructure. He has led teams and shipped core systems at Indeed—rising from intern to Distinguished Technical Fellow and multiple director roles—before moving to Snowflake’s Database Engineering team to tackle large-scale storage and analytics challenges. His technical depth spans compression algorithms, data storage, and stream/batch processing technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka and Lucene, with hands-on experience in Java and C. He founded JeffDB, a distributed consistent highly available database, showing an early entrepreneurial streak and deep systems design instincts. Known for optimizing scalability and reliability at internet scale, he combines engineering leadership with a practitioner’s appetite for low-level performance tuning.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (32)
semantics9
persistent9
data-structures8
daisy8
raii8
matching8
modular7
regex7
persistent-data7
regular-expression7
midi7
audio7
scale7
parser7
cpp7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jeffplaisance/BppTree
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
B++ Tree
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 10 months
jeffplaisance/fingertree
Mar 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:17 commits in 1 month
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