angela harney

Seattle-based Snowflake consultant (long-time data engineer and part-time instructor) recognized for teaching Snowflake at scale: a 2022 how-to book, a YouTube channel, a steady Medium stream that turned to Cortex AI in 2025-26, a Udemy Cortex AISQL course, and hosting Seattle user group meetups. Index: [[snowflake-data-superheroes/index|index]].

Known for

Education content: author of the book Snowflake How-To (published 2022-09-26) and the Udemy course Snowflake Cortex AISQL: Fundamentals. Her Aimpoint bio also says she contributes to official Snowflake AI courses on Coursera (Aimpoint).
Practical Cortex AI content: Medium posts on Cortex AI cost queries, AI-ready data, Cortex Code skills, and price prediction with Cortex AI (Medium); YouTube shorts on Cortex Agents over semantic views, Cortex Analyst, and Cortex Search (YouTube). 2026 Snowflake Community Awards finalist, AI Excellence category, AMER (Community Awards).
Seattle user group hosting: hosted the monthly Seattle meetups (cert study + community-built Streamlit app), for example on 2025-02-12 (event page).

Contribution channels

Community answers: ? (no Snowflake Community forum profile found)
User group: Host of Snowflake Seattle meetups, e.g. "SnowPro Core and Adv Cert Study + Community App Build" on 2025-02-12, listed as HOST with Richard McEnery (phData) as ORGANIZER (event). The current Seattle chapter page lists only Richard McEnery as chapter leader (chapter). Speaker at Women on Snowflake UG, "Back from Summit 2025" takeaways, 2025-06-30 (event).
Blog: Personal Medium, not the Snowflake Builders Blog as far as seen (Medium). Earliest visible post 2024-04-28 ("Write SQL code to execute a SQL query in Snowflake"); "Quick Tools Series" on warehouse right-sizing (Sep-Oct 2024); Gen2 warehouses (2025-06-07); semantic model from Excel (2025-06-25); five-part Snowflake + DataOps.live series (2025-08-24); Cortex AI pricing, AI-ready data, Cortex AI cost queries, AI strategy, Cortex Code skills (2025-11 to 2026-04).
YouTube / talks: YouTube channel joined 2021-02-01, 37 videos, 314 subscribers at time of check; Cortex how-tos, BUILD 2025 feature highlights, and "Snowflake Partner Spotlight" sessions (Matillion Maia, Quest, DataOps.live, Revefi). Podcast guest on #TrueDataOps (DataOps.live, host Keith Belanger), "AI Ready Data" (Apple Podcasts).
Open source: ? (no GitHub found)
Books: Snowflake How-To: A Getting Started look at Snowflake with hands-on practice of the basics, paperback, 2022-09-26.
Certs: "Four-time Snowflake certified" per the TrueDataOps episode description (Apple Podcasts); specific exams not named. TheOrg summary mentions Snowflake and Databricks Academy certifications (TheOrg).

Path to recognition

Background: decades of data engineering (Udemy bio says 37 years, Aimpoint says 20+) plus about 15 years as a part-time instructor and curriculum author; Snowflake-focused for about 7 years (Udemy, Aimpoint). Client work cited: Disney, Brooks Running, Microsoft, Realty Income, United Healthcare (TheOrg, Aimpoint).
2021-02: YouTube channel created, framed around Snowpark and SQL training (YouTube).
2022-09-26: published Snowflake How-To, a beginner book with self-contained labs on a trial account (Amazon). This is the earliest dated Snowflake-community artifact found.
2024: first cohort year per the directory member-since tag. Her visible Medium output starts 2024-04-28, so the book plus YouTube teaching most likely carried the nomination (inference).
2024-2025: shifted from teaching basics to performance and cost tooling ("Quick Tools" views), then hosted Seattle UG cert-study meetups (2025) and did Summit recap talks. Renewed for 2025 and 2026.
2025-2026: pivoted her content to Cortex AI (AISQL course, agents, semantic views, cost tracking). That pivot led to the 2026 Community Awards AI Excellence finalist spot and a Solutions Architect role at Aimpoint Digital (inference on causality).
Takeaway for Ben (inference): her lever was teaching formats (book, course, video, cert study group), not forum answers or open source. She also kept renewing by following the product's newest surface (Cortex).

Notes

Absent from the 2024 announcement (Feb 8, 2024: 80 names); her 2024 cohort year rests on the directory member-since tag plus Aimpoint's "last 3 years" phrasing.
Directory card (scraped 2026-09-29): Senior Consultant, Unify Consulting. Directory member-since tag: 2024. On the 2025 Medium roster. 2026 membership is presumed from presence on the current directory; the directory (130) does not exactly equal the announced 2026 cohort (125). See [[_roster-notes]].
Employer changed: the Aimpoint Digital team page ("team member since 2026") and the LinkedIn headline show Aimpoint Digital. The 2026 Community Awards page also lists her as "Snowflake Solutions Architect, Aimpoint Digital". The Snowflake directory card is stale on this point. Both employers are Snowflake partner consultancies.
Name variant: "Angie Harney" on Aimpoint; Medium handle @angelamarieharney.
The Aimpoint bio says Superhero "for the last 3 years", which matches 2024-2026.
Experience figures differ by source (20+, 25+, 30+, 37 years). None of them is treated as authoritative.
Search results also returned data-broker pages (ZoomInfo, RocketReach, Veripages); they were deliberately not used.
Blocked: direct WebFetch to Medium, Udemy and Amazon returned 403/500 errors; Playwright was used to read them.

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