Unmesh Jagtap

Product @ Snowflake

Unmesh Jagtap is a Principal Product Manager at Snowflake, where he focuses on leading Native Applications, which he describes as "the next generation apps platform for data intensive applications".1 He joined Snowflake in February 2021 and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.1

Prior to his role at Snowflake, Jagtap had an impressive career in the tech industry:

Twitter (2014-2021):
- Director of Engineering (2019-2021)
- Senior Engineering Manager (2017-2019)
- Engineering Manager (2016-2017)
- Senior Software Engineer (2014-2016)

During his time at Twitter, he led significant initiatives such as the company's partnership with AWS, oversaw the migration to Kafka, and directed the adoption of RocksDB as the default storage engine for Manhattan.1

Oracle (2009-2014):
- Principal Member of Technical Staff

At Oracle, he worked on scaling parallel execution infrastructure and published research on adaptive and big data scale parallel execution.1

IBM (2006-2008):
- Application Developer

Jagtap's educational background includes:

MBA from The Wharton School (2019-2021)
Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Cornell University (2008-2009)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Pune (2003-2006)1

At Snowflake, Jagtap has been involved in significant projects, including the conceptualization and formulation of the business case for the Streamlit acquisition.1 He is known for his expertise in cloud, databases, and distributed systems, which he applies to develop Snowflake's cloud data platform.

Jagtap is also active in industry events, speaking about Native Applications Framework at Snowflake Summit.3 Recently, he announced Snowflake Ventures' investment in Sigma Computing to integrate top-tier BI capabilities directly into the AI Data Cloud.2