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Founder of Query.Farm

Founder of Query.Farm, where he builds extensions, and products with DuckDB.

Previously Served as Head of Cloud Data Platform at Schonfeld Strategic Advisors from 2021 to 2024, where he leads a global team building a cloud-agnostic data platform for quantitative trading. His stack included Apache Arrow, DuckDB, Apache Iceberg, AWS Lambda, Athena, and S3. Previously held leadership roles as CTO at J.P. Morgan (ROAR platform, secure multiparty computation) and VP at Two Sigma (cloud-scale caching, container optimizations, Spark, Mesos).