Founder Profile
Marcin Żukowski
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Marcin Żukowski?
Marcin Żukowski is a founder of Snowflake Inc., which was founded in 2012 with Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes.
- Company founded
- Snowflake Inc.
- Founded
- 2012
- Co-founders
- Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes
Background
Database researcher and CEO of Vectorwise (acquired by Actian).
Founding Story
Marcin Żukowski was a co-founder of Snowflake, bringing his deep academic and commercial expertise in vectorized query execution. He integrated these advanced processing techniques into Snowflake's cloud-native architecture, ensuring the platform could process massive, complex SQL queries across petabytes of data without degrading performance. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- Snowflake FY2026 Form 10-K (Snowflake Inc.)
- Snowflake Q1 FY2027 Form 10-Q (Snowflake Inc.)