TL;DR;

A couple of months ago I announced my plan to go independent and pivot into providing consulting services. At that time I operated on a rather optimistic view of the state of the market. Reality turned out to be less so. Hence, a course correction was necessary.

Without further ado I'm happy to announced that, as of November 2023, I have joined the Streamlit Ecosystem team at Snowflake.

Illustration of a sail boat heading towards the Snowflake company logo.

Why Snowflake?

Snowflake is all about data. It is literally their mission statement to "Mobilize the world's data". And the world runs on data. At least this is what the AI/ML maximalists want you to believe! That's one of the reasons I think Snowflake is the place to be. When all the hot air of the current hype cycle ends, it will be tools like Snowflake that will enable AI to do some actual work.

Secondly, I'm super excited about the team I'm joining. If you didn't hear about Streamlit yet, it is open-source tool for creating web-apps with a focus on visualizing and interacting with data. In my opinion a crucial piece of the data puzzle. The company behind Streamlit was acquired by Snowflake in 2022. Consequently, a lot of work is currently going into integrating it into the Snowflake Data Platform.

Finally, the Snowflake Warsaw hub was build on top of Polidea. A company I worked for between 2009 and 2017. I have met a lot of fantastic people during that time. Many of them are still at Snowflake. I believe this combination of great people and an interesting products, creates a truly potent mix.

Continued commitment

Even with this course correction, I remain committed to developing CitroVM further and writing this blog. Although its focus may shift from Apple platforms into the broad python ecosystem.

Let it snow!