Shrikant Shanbhag

Shrikant Shanbhag is an experienced software engineering leader currently serving as the Director of Engineering at Snowflake, a position he has held since July 2021.1 Based in Mountain View, California, Shanbhag brings over 12 years of experience in the software engineering field.15

Career Highlights

Google Experience: Before joining Snowflake, Shanbhag had a successful career at Google, where he worked for over 12 years in various roles:

• Senior Staff Engineer (March 2017 - July 2021)
• Staff Software Engineer (April 2013 - March 2017)
• Senior Software Engineer (March 2009 - April 2013)1

During his time at Google, Shanbhag made significant contributions to several projects:

• Led the Connected Sheets strategy, integrating Google Cloud Platform's BigQuery with Google Workspace's Sheets
• Initiated ML/NL features in Sheets, including the Explore panel and Answers feature
• Oversaw engineering for various product enhancements, including macro recording and enhanced pivots1

Snowflake Role: At Snowflake, Shanbhag leads the Applications and UI team.3 He is part of the Product Experience team, which focuses on creating a world-class frontend experience for Snowflake users.2

Education and Early Career

Shanbhag completed his education at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.1 His early career included a role as an Assistant Systems Engineer at TCS from 2006 to 2007, where he worked on web applications and participated in developing an award-winning portal for tracking project health metrics.1

Skills and Expertise

Shanbhag is known for his expertise in:

• Software engineering leadership
• Product development
• User experience design
• Cloud computing technologies
• Data analytics and visualization

His work at Snowflake involves developing products that enable businesses to write queries, analyze data, and create and share visualizations on the Snowflake platform.2

Shanbhag's decision to join Snowflake was driven by the company's commitment to enhancing user experience and its potential for growth in the data cloud industry.34