Snowflake Summer: Stories and Snapshots From July

Cloud Coverage 

Storming in with the latest Snowflake company and product news. 

From Textbooks to Terabytes: Snowflake Celebrates National Intern Day

School may be out, but interning at Snowflake is in. This summer, we welcomed our latest cohort of interns across the company, culminating in a celebration of their contributions, achievements, and growth for National Intern Day. Highlights included Ski Week, a week-long development and networking event and our “Day in the Life” vlog series featuring none other than the interns themselves. Curious to see what a Snowflake intern gets up to on the daily? Check out their vlogs here.

Raising the Roof (and a Glass) at Snowflake Bellevue’s Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Last month, we celebrated our new office in Bellevue by cutting ribbon and cutting loose. VIPs including CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, Co-Founder Benoit Dageville, EVP of Product Christian Kleinerman, and Mayor Dr. Lynne Robinson helped ring in our next chapter, rounded out by snacks, speeches, and a tour of our ski-lodge inspired digs. From a fire pit and game room to a dedicated pet wall in honor of our four-legged colleagues, learn more about our space here.

Snowflake Hits Cannes in Style 

Last month, Snowflake rolled up to the red carpet at the 2025 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, where we mixed and mingled with industry experts to talk about the Snowflake AI Data Cloud for Media. Highlights from the French Riviera included our Data Clean Rooms brunch with AWS and Yahoo; a happy hour and panel with The Trade Desk, DoorDash Ads and Hightouch; and a waterfront chat with pros from Sainsbury’s, Rewe, and Samsung Ads. Eager to see how your data Cannes do more? Check out the Snowflake AI Data Cloud for Media here.

Best in Snow

Cool culture, chill and driven people.

The Bridge Between Code and Customers: Finding Success as a Solution Architect

Dot connector. Advisor. Influencer. They all add up to one thing: a standout solution architect. This month, ML Architect Sheena Nasim shared her top five strategies for finding success and staying power in the field, where she helps Snowflake customers turn hype into how-to’s and buzzwords into blueprints. From focusing on customer outcomes to mastering the art of technical storytelling, check out Sheena’s blog here to see how she takes tired templates and turns them into tailored customer roadmaps.

An Intern’s Experience From the Classroom to the AI Data Cloud

Forget coffee runs and paper pushing — at Snowflake, interns run projects and push code. This summer, Software Engineering Intern Purva Tugaonkar swapped lectures for learning the ropes on our Product Experience team. One of her major takeaways? Interns don’t watch from the sidelines: they get in the game. To read all of Purva’s thoughts on what life at Snowflake is all about, check out her blog here.

Pulling Shots and Pushing Code: Adam Dickinson Elevates Queries and Caffeine

As a member of the Database Engineering team, Adam Dickinson brews strong frameworks — and even stronger espresso. In this month’s People of Snowflake, the principal software engineer opened up about his love for code and caffeine, chatting about his role, team, and how precision, iteration, and feedback power both his pipelines and his pourover game. From fine-tuning queries to tweaking grind size, sip on the full story here.

On the Radar

The events forecast, from meet-ups to conferences and more. 

Catch us in Sydney on August 13 for Snowflake Ascent: Platform Training; North Carolina on August 20 for Summit in 60: Raleigh; and Stockholm on August 26 for Snowflake Customer Meetup Hosted by EQT. 

Don’t see a location near you? Check out our event calendar to see where we’re headed next!

Ice Breakers 

Test your Snowflake smarts.

Principal Software Engineer Adam Dickinson is a pro at debugging databases, but can you decode our latest crossword? Check out Adam’s blog to complete the game below and drop your answers in the comments.

Ready to hit the data slopes? Check out Snowflake’s open roles.