# Christopher Nivera

> Senior Software Engineer @ Snowflake

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/christophernivera

I'm a software engineer passionate about fullstack product engineering. https://chrisnivera.com

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2025 – Present | San Mateo, CA
- Tech lead for the Snowflake Copilot team.
- Designed and launched Cortex Agents, a fully managed orchestration framework empowering structured and unstructured data analysis on top of your data, powered via Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search, and custom tools/skills.
- Spearheaded Snowflake Intelligence, an agentic AI platform that allows enterprises to query data in natural language and deploy agents to take informed action.
- Contributing to Snowflake's nascent Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) efforts.

### Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Mateo, California, United States
- Built fullstack GenAI features across Snowflake’s platform.
- Delivered Snowflake Copilot, the company’s first GenAI-powered UI for data exploration and SQL generation.
- Developed Cortex Analyst, an LLM API that transforms business questions into reliable SQL for structured data in Snowflake.

### Software Engineer @ Neeva
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
Full-stack engineer working on Growth and NeevaAI teams.

- Developed Neeva’s first-time user experience, including its homepage, account creation, and premium subscription flows
- Revamped Neeva’s homepage to support multiple languages, driving expansion into Europe and Asia
- Implemented UIs for NeevaAI to display AI summaries of search results
- Constructed an end-to-end pipeline using DALL-E and Stable Diffusion to serve generated thumbnails for search results
- Led A/B tests which involved coordinating with design, building UIs, and driving launch discussions

### Data/Technology Intern @ Evil Geniuses
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Developed Python script to integrate sales and partnership data into EG's data lake for visualization
- Created an automated queue system in Discord allowing teams to more easily find scrimmages
- Augmented Discord bot with features such as anti-spam protection, profanity filters, and automated giveaways to enhance the Genius League server

### Collegiate Brand Ambassador @ Evil Geniuses
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Engaged community in events such as resume reviews and networking nights to give members a chance to learn more about a career in esports
- Assisted in expanding the Genius League Discord server, personally contributing over 300 new members
- Orchestrated panels and collegiate tournaments streamed to the EG Twitch channel

### Software Engineer Intern @ Medinas Health
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States
- Built a platform that detects and extracts product information from a set of photos using the Google Vision API, shortening task duration by 40% and allowing Medinas researchers to more accurately classify incoming medical equipment
- Developed the platform starting from initial brainstorming and system design to final implementation, utilizing React, Java, Spring, and MongoDB
- Worked closely with Medinas researchers and live hospital equipment to test the platform and identify ways to improve user experience

### Software Engineer Intern @ iCIMS
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Holmdel, New Jersey, United States
- Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Brown University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Providence, Rhode Island Area
UTA for CSCI1300 (User Interfaces and User Experience), Fall 2019

- Worked with 12 other teaching assistants and Prof. Jeff Huang to oversee a class of 270 students
- Overhauled and led labs intended to familiarize students with Adobe XD/Figma and HTML/CSS
- Redesigned A/B Testing and Iterative Design projects, giving students the opportunity to experience statistical analysis of data, eye tracking, and the full UI/UX design process. 
- Held weekly office hours to mentor students and assist them in understanding new concepts.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
Brown University

### High School Diploma
Phillips Exeter Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christopher-nivera
- Portfolio: https://chrisnivera.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-31