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Allison Lee

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Vice President, Database Engineering and Founding Engineer at Snowflake
📍 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Allison Lee is a Founding Engineer and the Vice President of Database Engineering at Snowflake, where she leads the team responsible for the core query processing stack. With a career spanning over two decades, including significant time at Oracle, she is an expert in query optimization and holds dozens of patents.

Outside of her technical leadership, Allison has a deep passion for scuba diving and ocean conservation. She spends most weekends doing technical dives to explore and document marine ecosystems, combining her love for the ocean with data collection for researchers to advance environmental preservation.

Her self-proclaimed title is "SQL Sorceress. "

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Experience
23 Years
Current Role
Vice President, Database Engineering and Founding Engineer
Job Level
Senior
Location
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Database Engineering
Leads the core database engineering team at Snowflake, focusing on query processing, metadata management, and building foundational components for the data cloud.
Query Optimization
A core focus throughout her career at both Snowflake and Oracle, with numerous patents in adaptive optimization techniques and secure data collaboration.
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Career

Work history

7-2013
Vice President, Database Engineering and Founding Engineer
Snowflake
7-2004 - 7-2013
Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Database Query Optimizer Group
Oracle
8-2002 - 7-2004
Member of Technical Staff, Applications Research Group
Oracle
Research Assistant, Software Design Group
MIT Lab for Computer Science
In the press

Media appearances

Diving into Ocean Conservation – Q&A with VP of Engineering Allison Lee. Featured in Snowflake Careers Blog
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Architecting the Snowflake Data Cloud by Allison Lee. Featured in YouTube
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Education
1996 - 2002
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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