Felix Weigel

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ABOUT FELIX WEIGEL

I am a software engineer at Snowflake in Berlin, Germany, working in in query processing and text search. Before Snowflake, I worked at Google for more than ten years, for the most part in analytic query processing for Google\'s internal data analytics stack. In this role, I drove features, performance optimization and system integration across the SQL stack that powers some of Google’s biggest products. Later, I spent two years in Google Research using Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing, expanding my horizon into applied ML and AI.Before Google, I worked on geo data retrieval and natural language processing in the backend of Nokia Maps. I have experience in developing apps for mobile and web end-to-end (frontend and backend). I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Munich, Germany and I spent two years as a postdoc at Cornell University, NY.I am a passionate problem solver and system builder who enjoys deep algorithmic work and prototyping. I have experience leading multi-quarter projects spanning multiple systems, teams and timezones.