From SQL Development to Deployment: My Session at Snowflake BUILD 2025
At Snowflake BUILD 2025, I demonstrated practical SQL pipeline development, Git collaboration, AI-assisted coding, and streamlined deployment using Snowflake Workspaces.
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Speaking at Snowflake Summit 2024
At Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, I presented Snowflake Forecasting ML Functions, shared practical demonstrations and engaged with the community.
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Another Certification Achieved: Snowflake Advanced DataEngineer
The Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer certification is considered tough. After taking the exam, I understand where the “tough” comes from. It’s not so much about the difficulty of the exam as about the vastness of the range of topics covered. Sometimes, it’s difficult to judge what the responsibilities of a data engineer are. On…
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Snowflake Data Engineering
Update: this book was published by Manning in 2025 and is available at Snowflake Data Engineering. The text below is from the early access period, while I was still writing it. Snowflake Data Engineering is my latest book in the making. It’s available in the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) where you get access to…
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Getting Started with Data Engineering and ML using Snowpark for Python
At Snowflake Data Cloud World Tour Dubai, I led a hands-on workshop covering end-to-end data engineering, machine learning, and Streamlit applications.
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Snowflake Summit 2023
This was my second consecutive year at the Snowflake Summit in Las Vegas. While the hot topic last year was data mesh and all sessions about data mesh sold out, this year data mesh was like last year’s snow. Now the running theme is Generative AI and LLMs. The good news is that attendees were…
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Another Certification Added to my Stash: SnowPro Advanced Data Analyst
The latest Snowflake advanced certification that was just released is SnowPro Advanced: Data Analyst. Out of all the advanced certifications offered by Snowflake, this one is closest to my professional experience and that’s why I decided to tackle it as my first advanced Snowflake certification. Some topics on the exam were relatively easy for me…
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Role-based Access Control (RBAC) with Secondary Roles
I’ve written about Role-based Access Control (RBAC) in Snowflake previously. One of the topics I discussed was how to resolve cross-database access. This has now been simplified since Snowflake introduced secondary roles. I wrote in more detail about how secondary roles can be used together with RBAC in this blog post on Medium.
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Snowpark for Python First Impressions
Just back from Snowflake Summit 2022 held in Las Vegas. There were so many new announcements about upcoming features in Snowflake, it’s hard to keep track. One topic that I’m most excited about is Snowpark for Python. As soon as I got back from Las Vegas, I started digging into the details because I had…
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What the Snowflake Community Means to Me—and My Career
I was recently interviewed for the Snowflake blog where I discussed the benefits of being an active member of the Snowflake Community, how the community has helped me grow into my role as a Snowflake DataSuperhero and how it can be of use to anyone looking for hands-on Snowflake resources. With respect to the usefulness…
