Will Xu
Principal Product Manager at Snowflake
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolWill Xu is a Principal Product Manager with 12 years of experience designing and shipping data infrastructure and analytics products, currently leading a stealth project at Snowflake after driving core engine work at Imply on Apache Druid. He blends deep technical roots—from early driver development and systems work at AMD and Microsoft to product leadership at Datadog, Hortonworks, and Facebook—with an MBA from Berkeley to connect engineering, go-to-market strategy, and open-source ecosystems. Known on GitHub as a "professional data plumber," he excels at turning complex real-time data and metrics problems into high-performance products and revenue-driving launches. Will’s background spans low-level systems optimization to building the fastest real-time analytics databases, giving him a rare ability to bridge engineering tradeoffs and product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Business Administration and Management General at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessCE Computer Engineering, CE Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (34)
hugo10
spark10
big-data10
kafka10
apache-druid10
hadoop10
apache10
analytics10
java10
olap10
sql10
datadog10
high-performance10
documentation10
database10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
2bethere/apache-druid
May 2020 - Jun 2024
Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
Contributions:54 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
real-time-analyticsanalyticssqlapachebig-data
2bethere/hive-hdc-demo
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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