devang pandya

Partner-side Snowflake practice leader: ran the Snowflake business at Tredence, then moved to Blend in 2026 as Global Head of Snowflake Practice. Recognized as a Data Superhero on the strength of executive-level partner evangelism (launch-partner quotes, Snowflake webinars, Forbes bylines, events) rather than forum answers or open source (inference). Index: [[snowflake-data-superheroes/index|index]].

Known for

Leading partner Snowflake practices: VP, Data Engineering and head of the Snowflake business unit at Tredence (a Snowflake Elite partner), now VP, Cloud, Data & AI Solutions and Global Head of Snowflake Practice at Blend (Openflow press release; Blend Summit 2026 page; LinkedIn).
Snowflake migration and modernization thought leadership, including a Forbes Technology Council piece on migrating to Snowflake (Forbes, 2025-09-17).
Speaking on newer Snowflake AI/ingestion features: Openflow launch-partner quote (June 2025) and a Snowflake-hosted "Snowflake Openflow & AISQL" virtual hands-on lab (Snowflake webinar).

Contribution channels

Community answers: ? (no Snowflake Community forum activity found)
User group: ? (no user-group leader page found). Hosted a Tredence x Snowflake "Data on Rocks" lightning event as Senior Director, Data Engineering (Tredence event page, date not shown).
Blog: Forbes Technology Council member; one Snowflake-focused article, "Transform Your Data Foundation With Snowflake Migration" (2025-09-17; profile). No Medium / Snowflake Builders Blog posts found.
YouTube / talks: Organized/hosted a fireside chat "Modernizing Data Platform and Unlocking Productivity through GenAI" featuring Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowpark with customer panelists from T-Mobile, Signify Health and DocuSign, plus dbt Labs and Unravel Data (LinkedIn post, circa mid-2024). Speaker on Snowflake's "Snowflake Openflow & AISQL" virtual hands-on lab, listed as VP Data Engineering, Tredence (Snowflake, URL dated 2026-01-22). Host on Blend's Evolve podcast Ep 14 with Snowflake's Global Vertical Lead for Consumer Goods, on data harmonization for agentic AI in consumer packaged goods (CPG) supply chains (2026-08-28). Listed among Blend leadership at Snowflake Summit 2026 (Blend page).
Open source: ? (no GitHub found)
Books: ?
Certs: "Snowflake certified Pro Architect (scored 88%)", AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals, per LinkedIn profile text surfaced in search snippets (LinkedIn); exact Snowflake credential name not verified.

Path to recognition

27+ years building teams and organizations, per LinkedIn about text (LinkedIn).
At Tredence: Senior Director, Data Engineering, then VP, Data Engineering and head of the Snowflake business unit (Tredence event page; Snowflake webinar). Tenure dates: ?
Circa mid-2024: fireside chat on GenAI with Snowflake Cortex AI and Snowpark, with big-name customer panelists (LinkedIn post). Earliest dated Snowflake-community activity found. The post is only dated "2 years ago"; its employer context is Tredence (inference).
2025-06-05: quoted as Tredence VP, Data Engineering in the Snowflake Openflow launch press release. That makes Tredence a named launch partner for a Snowflake Summit 2025 feature (PR Newswire).
2025-09-17: Forbes Technology Council article on Snowflake migration (Forbes).
Around January 2026: speaker on a Snowflake-hosted Openflow & AISQL hands-on lab (Snowflake). This is Snowflake's own channel, which likely raised his visibility with the Superhero program just before or around the 2026 selection (inference).
2026: joined Blend as Global Head of Snowflake Practice. Blend reached Snowflake Elite status on 2026-05-13 and is a Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code launch partner (PR Newswire; the release does not name him).
Pattern: recognition seems to come from a partner-executive track. He shows up in Snowflake launch press, Snowflake-hosted webinars, customer fireside events and Forbes bylines, not from forum answers, Medium or GitHub (inference). That is the path most similar to Ben's position at phData, with one difference: Pandya is VP-level at a partner, so launch-partner quotes and practice leadership come with the title (inference).

Notes

Directory card (scraped 2026-09-29): VP of Data Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI Solutions, Global Head of Snowflake Practice, Blend.
Directory member-since tag: 2026.
Not 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]].
AI/GenAI focus: moderate, not core. His content leans toward migration and data engineering, with AI framing: a Cortex AI GenAI fireside, Openflow & AISQL, and agentic-AI data harmonization on the podcast. No agent-building or Cortex technical content of his own was found.
Location conflict: search snippets from LinkedIn and the Forbes Council profile give Waxhaw, NC (Charlotte area). A data-broker listing gave a different location; it was not used. City kept as Waxhaw at medium confidence.
Same-name risk: several other LinkedIn profiles named Devang Pandya exist (Roche, a New Jersey profile, medical and academic researchers). The identity here is anchored on linkedin.com/in/dpandya-data, which Blend's own Summit page links to.
A search engine summary claimed he "joined phData". This is not substantiated and is probably a mis-attribution of another post. Treat it as false unless verified.
LinkedIn is blocked for guest view (HTTP 999, then a login wall in Playwright), so dates for past roles are unknown.

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