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Kenneth Truong Took the Offer Nobody Understood - Then Waited for the Spreadsheet to Work
He passed on familiar names for a seven-person startup, polished its first launch until dawn, watched nobody arrive, and stayed long enough to help rebuild the product around the cloud.
Benjamin Wagner
Benjamin Wagner is VP of Engineering (listed as CEO in some directories) at Firebolt, a cloud data warehouse built for speed. A computer scientist trained at Technical University of Munich, Wagner moved from academic database research and a Snowflake internship directly into building Firebolt's query engine from the ground up. He is the author of InkFuse, an experimental database runtime that unifies vectorized and compiled query execution, and a regular speaker at CMU's database seminar series. His work sits at the intersection of high-performance analytics and open standards, particularly around Apache Iceberg and PostgreSQL compliance.