Benjamin Wagner

Benjamin Wagner is an experienced engineering manager currently working at Firebolt since May 2021, focusing on query processing innovations such as query planning and distributed execution. Prior to this role, Benjamin served as a team lead in query processing at the Technical University of Munich from November 2019 to April 2021, collaborating on adaptive workload management for the Umbra system. Benjamin's early experience includes a software engineer internship at Snowflake where the focus was on high-performance query processing. Academically, Benjamin holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, all from the Technical University of Munich, emphasizing a strong foundational knowledge in computational theory and practice.