John Kew
Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Kew is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable systems across startups and large enterprises, currently contributing to Snowflake after Ponder's acquisition. He blends deep F/OSS experience, dynamic instrumentation, and distributed systems expertise—having worked on bytecode instrumentation, DynamoRIO, and performance/security at Tableau and VMware. John has repeatedly scaled data and connectivity platforms (Ponder, Tableau, Socrata) and combines hands-on coding with architectural leadership across languages from Python and Scala to Rust. Notably, he moves comfortably between low-level runtime tooling and high-level data engineering, and has a history of shipping features that address production failure modes at scale. Based in Seattle, he pairs a practical engineering mindset with a curiosity for research-driven techniques like self-organizing maps and evolutionary algorithms.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoPart-Time During Highschool Pascal / C, Part-Time During Highschool Pascal / C at University of Alaska Anchorage
Github Skills (99)
python10
pandas10
modin10
scale10
sql10
analytics10
dataframe10
git-repo9
database9
core-platform9
faunadb9
updating9
data-science9
socrata9
adapter9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jkew/bageld
Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
jkew/skew-biology
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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