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Andrew McCormick

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Software Enginner at Databricks
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Andrew is a distinguished software engineer specializing in high-performance, large-scale data systems. A Harvard PhD graduate, he has a track record of impactful work, including developing a new columnar format at Facebook, creating Googles Procella SQL query engine from its initial prototype, and leading the Photon GPU acceleration team at Databricks.

He has deep expertise in structured data storage and processing, having worked extensively with technologies like Iceberg and Parquet during his time at Snowflake.

His PhD thesis was on creating a bidirectional programming language and compiler for reversible circuits, a highly specialized area of computer science.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Software Enginner
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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GPU-Accelerated Databases
He is the technical lead for the Photon GPU project at Databricks, focusing on leveraging GPUs to dramatically speed up data processing and analytics.
Query Engine Design
He has extensive experience building query engines from the ground up, having written the initial prototype for Google's low-latency Procella SQL engine.
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Career

Work history

4-2024
Software Enginner
Databricks
2-2022 - 3-2024
Software Engineer
Snowflake
2-2020 - 2-2022
Software Engineer
Facebook
1-2014 - 2-2020
Software Engineer
Google
8-2013 - 1-2014
Software Engineer
Reflektion, Inc.
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Education
2010 - 2013
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Harvard University
2006 - 2008
Master of Arts (MA)
Harvard University
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