Our Passion: Performance at Scale
Sneller’s primary innovation is its SQL virtual machine written entirely in AVX-512 assembly. Every Intel Xeon processor shipped since 2018 has support for AVX-512, as well as the latest generation of AMD processors (Zen 4 and later). With AVX-512, our SQL virtual machine is able to process sixteen rows of data instead of one with the same number of CPU instructions. Sneller was accepted into Intel’s Startup Disruptor Program based on this innovation.
Meet the team…
Frank Wessels
Founder & CEO
Frank started his career by applying optimization techniques
in the Medical Imaging space for 2D as well as 3D/GPU-based
visualization. Seeing the latest advancements in SIMD computing
on both the ARM and Intel architectures, he saw an opportunity
to launch Sneller in order to fully leverage these innovations.
Prior to founding Sneller, Frank was CTO at open source object
storage startup MinIO.
Phil Hofer
CTO
Phil is a recovering physicist with a passion for compilers
and high-performance computing. His professional software
career began after publishing a few successful open source
libraries that are used by a number of major cloud enterprises.
Most recently before joining Sneller, Phil was running an
independent software engineering consulting business.
Henk-Jan Lebbink
Senior Software Engineer
Henk-Jan is an enthusiastic programmer with a special interest in theorem
proving and optimization. He earned a PhD in Artificial Intelligence on
reasoning and epistemic logics. Although he was once distracted by an MBA
on entrepreneurship, he ultimately regained focus on the things that
truly matter: correctness and computational speed. Implementing
algorithms as fast as possible, using all means available, truly aligns
with Sneller’s motto.
Ramon de Klein
Senior Software Engineer
Ramon is a passionate programmer for over 25 years
and working on everything but the assembler code.
He has been involved with Sneller, since the
beginning.
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