Tom Chao is a principal engineer at Snowflake, responsible for building out their core design system and providing a unified developer experience for 1P and 3P partners.

Prior to Snowflake, he led a cross-functional team at Uber to build out server driven technologies, accelerating the product release cycle, developer velocity, and feature consistency.  He has a passion for building large scale client experiences, with experiences leading architecture at Uber Rides, Gmail Android and iOS, and Google Nearby.