Isaac Kunen

Isaac Kunen

Professionally, I’ve built Snowflake’s Snowpark, Tableau Prep, SQL Server’s geospatial support, and more. Recently, I’ve been learning physics at the UW and teaching at North Seattle College.

Personally, I’m a father, a husband, a cellist, a photographer, and a tinkerer.

All opinions expressed here are mine alone: you can’t have them.

Hello World!

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It's really: "Hello again!"

A long time ago in a job not so far away, I kept a blog over at MSDN. Back then, I was a new program manager in SQL Server, and that blog really caught it's wind as we were pulling together SQL Server's geospatial support. After I left that project, things just sort of trailed off.

Over the years, I've considered starting up a blog again, but I've struggled to come up with a theme that was coherent, current, and that I could actually write about publicly.

But recently, I've started to think this is too high a bar. My goal with this new blog is merely to write a weekly post on something interesting to me. It's selfish, but I hope you find it interesting enough to read along.

So buckle up—it might get bumpy.

And welcome!

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