Founder Profile
Thierry Cruanes
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Thierry Cruanes?
Thierry Cruanes is a founder of Snowflake Inc., which was founded in 2012 with Benoit Dageville and Marcin Żukowski.
- Company founded
- Snowflake Inc.
- Founded
- 2012
- Co-founders
- Benoit Dageville and Marcin Żukowski
Background
Senior software engineer specializing in query optimization at Oracle and IBM.
Founding Story
Thierry Cruanes co-founded Snowflake alongside Benoit Dageville and Marcin Zukowski. As the Chief Technology Officer, he authored much of the highly complex query processing engine that allowed Snowflake to execute massive data analytics workloads exponentially faster than legacy data warehouses. (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.)