Philipp Unterbrunner
Chief Technology Officer at Observe, Inc.
Freienbach, Schwyz, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPhilipp Unterbrunner is a CTO and co-founder with nine years of industry experience leading data management and analytics product development from Switzerland. He helped shape core database execution engines as a founding engineer at Snowflake and later honed distributed systems expertise at Facebook’s LogDevice team. At Observe he has grown from co-founder to Managing Director of Switzerland and now Chief Technology Officer, blending deep academic roots—a PhD from ETH Zürich—with hands-on engineering and operational leadership. His work consistently focuses on marrying novel theory with efficient implementation to deliver observable, production-ready analytics. Colleagues describe him as a techno-optimist who prefers forward-looking solutions over legacy approaches and who still engages deeply with system internals rather than delegating them. He combines research-grade rigor with startup speed to turn complex query and storage problems into practical, scalable products.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing (FH) Software Engineering, Dipl.-Ing (FH) Software Engineering at University of Applied Sciences Upper AustriaMaster of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Cornell UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at ETH Zürich
German, French, English
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Github Skills (44)
sql-query10
java10
sql10
database10
hadoop9
spark9
big-data9
storage9
presto9
embeddable9
persistent9
hive9
storage-engine8
query-engine8
key-value-store8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
observeinc/goid
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
An inelegant but efficient way to get the goroutine id
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 2 PRs in 2 months
golanggoroutinego
philippu/presto
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 10 days
queryquery-enginenosqlmysqlsql
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