About

Lonnie Princehouse is a highly experienced software engineer and team leader with over 22 years of experience in the industry. Currently, he is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake, where he is responsible for designing and developing distributed systems. Lonnie has a deep understanding of quantitative skills and expertise spanning data science, distributed systems design, and system optimization. He has worked with several leading organizations throughout his career, including Amazon, where he served as a Senior Software Development Engineer. In this role, he was assigned to a large distributed team working on building the new AWS Timestream service from scratch. Lonnie led a team to build a core query service and developed several concepts included in the product. He used Java, Presto, EMR, EC2, S3, CloudFormation, PartiQL, Apache Drill, and proprietary Amazon infrastructure to complete his tasks. Prior to that, Lonnie was a Software Development Engineer II & III at AWS DynamoDB, where he focused on research, analytics, and initiatives to resolve heat management issues. He architected and implemented multiple product features and oversaw small teams of engineers. He used Java, Python, Pandas, Numpy, Jupyter, EMR, Spark, S3, Aurora to complete his tasks. Lonnie holds a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science - BS in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington. He is well-versed in several technologies, including Snowflake, AWS, Java, Jupyter, Spark, Pandas, and Python. Overall, Lonnie is a highly skilled software engineer with a strong background in distributed systems design, data science, and system optimization. He is an effective team leader and has a proven track record of delivering high-quality results.