Seb Kurella
Software Engineer at Snowflake
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSeb Kurella is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance data systems and distributed infrastructure, currently working on streaming ingest at Snowflake. He has led cross-functional initiatives at Firebolt—driving RBAC, multi-database engine support, a distributed metadata layer, and major query-planner reworks that cut compilation times and improved production observability. His background spans low-level embedded and DSP work through Cambridge Consultants to FPGA-accelerated DBMS research at SAP and ML performance engineering at IBM, giving him a rare blend of systems, performance, and algorithmic expertise. As a co-founder of a music-tech startup he also handled product, sales, and operational responsibilities, bringing customer-focused pragmatism to engineering decisions. Based in Berlin, he emphasizes empathy, honesty, humility and engagement in his work, and often pairs deep technical changes with developer productivity tooling and measurable performance wins.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electronic Engineering at The University of ManchesterMatura Mathematics and Physics, Matura Mathematics and Physics at XIV Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Stanisława Staszica w WarszawieMaster of Science - MS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at ETH Zürich
Polish, English, German
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Github Skills (14)
mfrc5228
dac7
cpu6
caching6
rfid6
arduino6
loops6
conditional-statements6
reduction4
metaprogramming3
cpp2
parallel1
high-performance1
scalable1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
skurella/nixie
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 27 pushes in 2 years 4 months
skurella/zagle2015
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 months
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