Summary
Sebastian Breß is a Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake and former postdoctoral researcher at TU Berlin with eight years of industry and academic experience in data management and query compilation. He holds a Dr.-Ing. from Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg and is the initiator and system architect of the open-source CoGaDB and the Hawk Query Compiler. His work focuses on optimizing database systems for modern and heterogeneous hardware, stream processing, and turning research prototypes into production-grade components. At DFKI and TU Berlin he combined deep systems research with practical engineering, a pattern he continues at Snowflake where he bridges compiler techniques and large-scale cloud data platforms. Colleagues value him for pairing rigorous academic methods with pragmatic system design, and for pushing low-level performance innovations that are rarely visible at the application layer.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doktoringenieur (Dr.-Ing.), Doktoringenieur (Dr.-Ing.) at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg