# Prateek Gaur

> Engineering @ Snowflake

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/prateekgaur

I have worked both independently and as a team lead to deliver high-quality software.
I have a first-principles based and systems-oriented approach towards building software.

Strengths:
Distributed systems, Systems thinking, Software design, Leadership, Communication

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2022 – Present
Snowflake Query Execution.

### Principal Software Engineer @ ThoughtSpot
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
Architect for the data indexing layer serving auto-completion at ThoughtSpot.

Uber Tech lead for data ingestion, data storage, data control plan, query planning, query optimization and query execution for the massively parallel database built at ThoughtSpot.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ ThoughtSpot
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto
Early member of built from scratch distributed database team.
Uber Tech lead for data ingestion, data storage, data control plan, query planning, query optimization and query execution for the massively parallel database built at ThoughtSpot.

Worked extensively on distributed query execution, query performance, distributed query planning, storage, data ingestion, infrastructure cost reduction and other sub-systems of the database.

Founding member of the Orion team; a custom, built from scratch cluster management software.

### Software Engineer @ Pocket Gems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco
As a part of Pocket Gems I have worked on iOS and Android titles. I have been a part of Paradise Cove ( iOS ), Animal Voyage (Android) and Epic Empire (Android) teams. Paradise Cove has consistently been in the Top 20 grossing list of the Apple App Store for more than an year and is Pocket Gems' most profitable product.

Apart from working on various game features I played a pivotal role in making a year old product support localization. I later helped other game teams integrate the tech and we saw a successful launch of Animal Voyage in 7 languages which was a great feat for the company.

As a part of Android team I have worked with Engineers from Pocket Gems and Apportable in porting Animal Voyage and Epic Empire to Android. My role mostly revolved around ensuring we have similar functionality in both platforms, working on performance issues and integrating Google Play Services.

### Software Developer @ Silicon Tech Labs
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Bangalore
Worked as an iOS dev on a Pocket Gems project - Tap Paradise Cove

### Teaching Assistant ( Data Structures and Algorithms ) @ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### Software Intern @ CUHK ( Chinese University of Hong Kong )
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
My work was a part of project which aimed towards modelling of human behavior for building context sensitive applications and services. Under this project I implemented a sound categorization system, via supervised and unsupervised classifiers, for Android Platform. I implemented code for sound recording, feature extraction from recorded audio and content based classification.

### Software Intern @ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Karlsruhe, Germany
Expanded an open source software Osm2Wkt( map conversion utility ) and applied network/graph analysis tools to study graph theoretic properties of road network of 10 major cities around the world. I further simulated Delay Tolerant Networking protocols over road networks of these cities to analyze any relationship between road structure and protocol effectiveness properties. My work, findings and discussions based on simulation results and related work done in the field led my mentor to expand his work, finally leading to a publication in INFOCOM(IEEE conference), Shanghai, 2011


## Education
### Dual Degree in Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

### A.I.S.S.C.E. CBSE
Delhi Public School, Jodhpur

### A.I.S.S.E. CBSE
Delhi Public School, Jodhpur


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prateek-gaur-52895223

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Last updated: 2026-04-12