Carl Perry

Head of Analytics, Snowflake

Carl is Snowflake's Head of Analytics and he joined Snowflake as an inspired customer. Previous to Snowflake, he was the General Manager for Square’s Developer Platform, Group Product Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, and an Engineering Manager at AWS S3. Outside of work, Carl enjoys exercise and spending time on the beach. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.

Carl Perry

Sessions / 2026 / 1 talk

  • The lakehouse architecture solved a real problem — but AI has rewritten the requirements. Latency, compute separation, vector workloads, real-time inference pipelines: the demands look nothing like they did five years ago. Three engineers who helped build the modern data stack join us to debate what's actually changing under the hood, what's being thrown out, and what the next five years look like for the teams who have to ship on top of it.

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