Max Heimel

Max Heimel is a Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake, focusing on the SQL query execution engine for the Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse since October 2015. Prior to this role, Max was a PhD student at TU Berlin from January 2012 to September 2015, where research centered on enhancing data processing and analytics on heterogeneous processor architectures. Max gained valuable experience through multiple internships at Google, working with various teams from 2011 to 2013, and also held positions at IBM, where contributions were made to the Informix Dynamic Server SQL engine and query optimization from 2007 to 2009. Max holds a PhD in Computer Science from Technische Universität Berlin and has both a Master of Science and Diplom in Applied Computer Science.