Hello, I am Dash 👋

Thank you for stopping by. Here's a little bit about myself...

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• 🔭 I’m currently working on all things Snowflake. That means...
  • 👯 I'm looking to collaborate and create some cool content that we can share with the community
• 📫 Here's how you can reach me: Very active -- LinkedIn | Not so active -- Bluesky
• ⚡ Fun facts about me: I am an aspiring skier and a photog -- Website | Instagram

Technical Guides

• Getting Started with Snowflake MCP Server
• Getting Started with Snowflake Intelligence
• Getting Started with Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Knowledge Extensions
• Getting Started with Cortex AI Functions
• Getting Started With Snowflake Cortex AI
• Build Agentic Application with Anthropic In Snowflake
• Integrate Snowflake Cortex with Slack
• Integrate Snowflake Cortex with Microsoft Teams
• Integrate Snowflake Cortex with Zoom
• Getting Started with Data Engineering and ML using Snowpark for Python and Snowflake Notebooks
• AI Video Search with Snowflake and Twelve Labs
• Apache Iceberg and Snowflake Open Catalog: Unlock Data Lake Interoperability with Apache Polaris
• Build Agentic Workflows with Hugging Face Smolagents in Snowflake
• Build GenAI Inpainting and Hybrid Table App in Snowpark Container Services

Technical Blogs

• Medium
  • Build a Natural Language Data Assistant in VS Code with Copilot, MCP, and Snowflake Cortex AI
  • Integrate Snowflake Cortex Analyst REST API with Slack
  • Run 3 useful LLM inference jobs in minutes with Snowflake Cortex
  • Integrating Generative AI with Snowflake’s External Functions
  • Getting Started with Data Engineering and ML using Snowpark for Python
  • Image Recognition in Snowflake using Snowpark Python, PyTorch, Streamlit and OpenAI
  • Getting Started with Snowpark and Streamlit
  • Deploying Custom Python Packages from GitHub to Snowflake
  • Snowpark For Python Open Source: How I Contributed And So Can You
• KDnuggets
  • Model Experiments, Tracking and Registration using MLflow on Databricks
• Data Science Central
  • Load Data Into Google BigQuery on Dataproc and AutoML
• DZone
• Intel
• StreamSets

Speaking Engagements

• Snowflake World Tour 2025
  • Sydney, Australia
  • NYC, New York
  • Auckland, New Zealand
  • Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Meetups 2025
  • London
  • Amsterdam
  • Prague
• Snowflake Summit 2025
  • Platform Keynote
  • Build and Deploy Data Agents with Snowflake Cortex AI,AI308
• Snowflake Dev Day 2025
  • Building Agentic Applications in Snowflake,AI252
• Sowflake Virtual Dev Day 2025
  • Hands-on Lab: Building Agentic Applications in Snowflake
• BUILD London 2025
  • Opening Keynote
• Snowflake Summit 2024
  • Opening/Platform and Builders Keynotes
  • Hands-On Lab: Build a RAG-Based LLM Assistant Using Streamlit and Snowflake Cortex AI
  • Hands-On Lab: Gen AI with Snowflake Cortex AI
• ACCELERATE AI SUCCESS WITH SNOWFLAKE
  • Brisbane, Australia
  • Perth, Australia
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Auckland, New Zealand
• Snowflake World Tour 2024
  • Atlanta, USA
  • Stockholm, Sweden
• Snowflake Summit 2023
  • Opening Keynote
  • Builder Keynote
  • Hands-On Lab: Data Engineering and ML using Snowpark Python and Streamlit
• Snowflake Data Cloud World Tour 2023 Keynote
  • Singapore
  • Sydney, Australia
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Berlin, Germany
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Santa Clara, USA
• Snowflake Data Cloud World Tour 2022
  • San Francisco, USA
  • Auckland, New Zealand
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Berlin, Germany
• PyCon UK 2022
• PyCon Portugal 2022
• DataEngBytes 2022
• Snowflake Summit 2022
• Data+AI Summit Europe 2020
• DataOpsDC Meetup 2020
• Twin Cities Data Engineering Meetup 2020
• Deep Learning with Spark London Meetup 2017
• CraftConf 2015 and 2016
• Developer Week 2015

Open Source Contributions

• Snowflake Python Client
• Snowflake Python Connector