Alex Dean

Alex is the Co-founder and CEO of Snowplow.

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April 5, 2022

Snowplow Appoints Christopher Lynch as Chairman

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

January 12, 2021

Snowplow Analytics raises $10 million in Series A2 funding

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

December 17, 2020

Press release: Snowplow experiences rapid growth through 2020

Alex Dean
How to guides

May 26, 2020

How data teams can respond to a global crisis

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

November 15, 2019

Snowplow secures £4m Series A funding to expand real-time data pipeline capabilities

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

April 24, 2019

Data Science Festival: What makes an effective data team?

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

April 23, 2019

Data Science Festival: Machine learning in real-time: the next frontier

Alex Dean
Releases

February 21, 2017

Snowplow 87 Chichen Itza released

Alex Dean
Releases

November 15, 2016

Snowplow 85 Metamorphosis released with beta Apache Kafka support

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

October 30, 2016

Asynchronous micro-services and Crunch Budapest 2016

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

October 23, 2016

Schema registries and Strata + Hadoop World NYC 2016

Alex Dean
Releases

September 22, 2016

Introducing Sauna, a decisioning and response platform

Alex Dean
Releases

March 23, 2016

Snowplow Scala Analytics SDK 0.1.0 released

Alex Dean
Releases

March 19, 2016

Google Accelerated Mobile Pages adds support for Snowplow

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

March 17, 2016

2015-2016 winternship wrap-up

Alex Dean
Releases

January 26, 2016

Snowplow 76 Changeable Hawk-Eagle released

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

December 25, 2015

Anton Parkhomenko is a Snowplower!

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

November 13, 2015

Unified Log London 4 on Apache ZooKeeper and analytics on write with AWS Lambda

Alex Dean
Releases

October 15, 2015

Snowplow 72 Great Spotted Kiwi released

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

October 13, 2015

Orchestrating batch processing pipelines with cron and make

Alex Dean
Releases

September 30, 2015

Samza Scala example project released

Alex Dean
Data insights

September 15, 2015

Improving Snowplow's understanding of time

Alex Dean
Releases

September 13, 2015

SQL Runner 0.2.0 released

Alex Dean
Releases

August 30, 2015

Huskimo 0.3.0 released: warehouse your Twilio telephony data in Redshift

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

July 10, 2015

Introducing our 2015 Snowplow summer interns

Alex Dean
Releases

June 21, 2015

Huskimo 0.2.0 released: warehouse your Singular marketing spend data in Redshift

Alex Dean
Releases

June 16, 2015

Snowplow 66 Oriental Skylark released

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

May 27, 2015

Unified Log London 3 with Apache Kafka and Samza at State

Alex Dean
Releases

May 10, 2015

Spark Example Project 0.3.0 released for getting started with Apache Spark on EMR

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

April 8, 2015

Announcing our summer open source internship program

Alex Dean
Releases

April 2, 2015

Snowplow 63 Red-Cheeked Cordon-Bleu released

Alex Dean
Releases

March 23, 2015

Snowplow ActionScript 3 Tracker 0.1.0 released

Alex Dean
Releases

March 17, 2015

Snowplow 62 Tropical Parula released

Alex Dean
Releases

March 2, 2015

Snowplow 61 Pygmy Parrot released

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

February 19, 2015

Joshua Beemster is a Snowplower!

Alex Dean
Releases

February 15, 2015

Snowplow Objective-C Tracker 0.3.0 released

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

January 25, 2015

Introducing our 2014-2015 Snowplow winterns

Alex Dean
Releases

January 24, 2015

Snowplow Java Tracker 0.7.0 released

Alex Dean
Data insights

January 18, 2015

Modeling events through entity snapshotting

Alex Dean
Releases

December 31, 2014

Snowplow 0.9.14 released with additional webhooks

Alex Dean
Releases

December 27, 2014

New Java and Android Tracker versions released

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

December 17, 2014

Building robust data pipelines in Scala – Session at Scala eXchange, December 2014

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

November 19, 2014

London NoSQL talk on Snowplow

Alex Dean
Releases

November 10, 2014

Snowplow 0.9.11 released with support for webhooks

Alex Dean
Releases

November 8, 2014

Snowplow iOS Tracker 0.2.0 released

Alex Dean
Releases

November 6, 2014

Snowplow 0.9.10 released with support for new JavaScript Tracker v2.1.0 events

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

November 2, 2014

Span Conference and Why your company needs a Unified Log

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

September 29, 2014

Berlin trip round-up

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

September 24, 2014

The Snowplow team will be in the Bay Area and Seattle in October – get in touch if you'd like to meet

Alex Dean
Releases

September 18, 2014

Snowplow 0.9.8 released for mobile analytics

Alex Dean
Releases

September 2, 2014

Snowplow 0.9.7 released with important bug fixes

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

August 21, 2014

Introducing our Snowplow summer interns

Alex Dean
Data insights

July 31, 2014

Unified Log Processing is now available from Manning Early Access

Alex Dean
Releases

July 9, 2014

Snowplow 0.9.5 released with JSON validation and shredding

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

July 1, 2014

Fred Blundun is a Snowplower!

Alex Dean
Releases

July 1, 2014

Iglu schema repository 0.1.0 released

Alex Dean
Releases

June 20, 2014

Snowplow Java Tracker 0.1.0 by Kevin Gleason released

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

June 12, 2014

Budapest Data round-up

Alex Dean
Releases

May 21, 2014

Snowplow 0.9.3 released with Clojure Collector fixes

Alex Dean
Data insights

May 15, 2014

Introducing self-describing JSONs

Alex Dean
Data insights

May 13, 2014

Introducing SchemaVer for semantic versioning of schemas

Alex Dean
Releases

April 30, 2014

Snowplow 0.9.2 released to support new CloudFront log format

Alex Dean
Releases

April 17, 2014

Spark Example Project released for running Spark jobs on EMR

Alex Dean
Releases

April 11, 2014

Snowplow 0.9.1 released with initial JSON support

Alex Dean
Releases

March 28, 2014

Snowplow Python Tracker 0.1.0 by wintern Anuj More released

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

March 24, 2014

Introduction to Snowplow – Talk at Big Data and Data Science Israel

Alex Dean
Data insights

March 18, 2014

The Snowplow team will be in Israel and Cyprus in March – get in touch if you'd like to meet

Alex Dean
Data insights

March 11, 2014

Building an event grammar – understanding context

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

March 5, 2014

LSUG talk – Building data processing apps in Scala, the Snowplow experience

Alex Dean
Releases

February 4, 2014

Snowplow 0.9.0 released with beta Amazon Kinesis support

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

January 30, 2014

Inaugural meetup of the Amazon Kinesis – London User Group

Alex Dean
Releases

January 27, 2014

Snowplow JavaScript Tracker 0.13.0 released with custom contexts

Alex Dean
Releases

January 27, 2014

A guide to custom contexts in Snowplow JavaScript Tracker 0.13.0

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

January 21, 2014

The Snowplow team will be in New York in February – get in touch if you'd like to meet

Alex Dean
Data insights

January 20, 2014

The three eras of business data processing

Alex Dean
Releases

January 17, 2014

Scala Forex library by wintern Jiawen Zhou released

Alex Dean
Releases

January 7, 2014

Snowplow 0.8.12 released with a variety of improvements to the Scalding Enrichment process

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

December 20, 2013

Introducing our Snowplow winterns

Alex Dean
Releases

October 22, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.11 released – supports all Cloudfront log file formats and host of small improvements for power users

Alex Dean
Data insights

October 21, 2013

Scripting Hadoop, Part One – Adventures with Scala, Rhino and JavaScript

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

October 7, 2013

Announcing our winter open source internship program

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

September 30, 2013

Snowplow passes 500 stars on GitHub

Alex Dean
Releases

September 5, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.9 released to handle CloudFront log file format change

Alex Dean
Data insights

August 12, 2013

Towards universal event analytics – building an event grammar

Alex Dean
Releases

August 5, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.8 released with Postgres and Hive support

Alex Dean
Releases

July 8, 2013

.NET (C#) support added to referer-parser

Alex Dean
Releases

July 7, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.7 released with JavaScript Tracker improvements

Alex Dean
Releases

July 2, 2013

Snowplow Tracker for Lua event analytics released

Alex Dean
Releases

June 3, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.6 released with performance improvements

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

May 30, 2013

Dealing with Hadoop's small files problem

Alex Dean
Releases

May 24, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.5 released with ETL bug fixes

Alex Dean
Releases

May 16, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.4 released with MaxMind geo-IP lookups

Alex Dean
Releases

May 14, 2013

A guide to unstructured events in Snowplow 0.8.3

Alex Dean
Releases

May 14, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.3 released with unstructured events

Alex Dean
Releases

May 8, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.2 released with Clojure Collector enhancements

Alex Dean
Releases

April 12, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.1 released with referer URL parsing

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

April 10, 2013

Towards high-fidelity web analytics – introducing Snowplow's innovative new event validation capabilities

Alex Dean
Releases

April 3, 2013

Snowplow 0.8.0 released with all-new Scalding-based data enrichment

Alex Dean
Releases

March 25, 2013

Snowplow Arduino Tracker released – sensor and event analytics for the internet of things

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

March 20, 2013

Inside the Plow – Rob Slifka's Elasticity

Alex Dean
Releases

March 3, 2013

Snowplow 0.7.6 released with Redshift data warehouse support

Alex Dean
Releases

February 25, 2013

Snowplow 0.7.5 released with important JavaScript fix

Alex Dean
Releases

February 22, 2013

Snowplow 0.7.4 released for better eventstream analytics

Alex Dean
How to guides

February 8, 2013

Writing Hive UDFs – a tutorial

Alex Dean
Releases

January 29, 2013

Snowplow 0.7.2 released, with the new Pixel tracker

Alex Dean
Releases

January 22, 2013

Snowplow 0.7.1 released, with easier-to-run Ruby apps

Alex Dean
Inside the plow

January 20, 2013

Snowplow reaches 202 stars on GitHub

Alex Dean
Releases

January 16, 2013

Scala MaxMind GeoIP library released

Alex Dean
Releases

January 3, 2013

Snowplow 0.7.0 released, with new Clojure-based collector

Alex Dean
Releases

January 2, 2013

referer-parser now with Java, Scala and Python support

Alex Dean
Releases

December 26, 2012

Snowplow 0.6.5 released, with improved event tracking

Alex Dean
Releases

December 20, 2012

Snowplow 0.6.4 released, with Infobright improvements

Alex Dean
Releases

December 18, 2012

Snowplow 0.6.3 released, with JavaScript and HiveQL bug fixes

Alex Dean
Releases

November 27, 2012

Snowplow 0.6.2 released, with JavaScript tracker bug fixes

Alex Dean
Releases

November 6, 2012

Snowplow 0.5.2 released, and introducing the Sluice Ruby gem

Alex Dean
Releases

November 1, 2012

Snowplow 0.5.1 released, with lots of small improvements

Alex Dean
Releases

October 25, 2012

Snowplow 0.5.0 released, now with a Ruby gem to run Snowplow's ETL process on Amazon EMR

Alex Dean
Releases

October 20, 2012

Infobright Ruby Loader Released

Alex Dean
Releases

October 11, 2012

Snowplow 0.4.10 released

Alex Dean
Releases

September 14, 2012

Snowplow 0.4.8 released

Alex Dean
Releases

September 6, 2012

Snowplow 0.4.7 released with additional JavaScript tracking options

Alex Dean
Data insights

August 20, 2012

Amazon announces Glacier – lowers the cost of running Snowplow

Alex Dean
Releases

August 20, 2012

Snowplow 0.4.6 released

Alex Dean
Releases

August 13, 2012

Updated Hive SerDe released

Alex Dean
Releases

August 13, 2012

SnowCannon – a node.js collector for Snowplow

Alex Dean

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Alex Dean

Articles from this author

Snowplow Appoints Christopher Lynch as Chairman

Snowplow Analytics raises $10 million in Series A2 funding

Press release: Snowplow experiences rapid growth through 2020

How data teams can respond to a global crisis

Snowplow secures £4m Series A funding to expand real-time data pipeline capabilities

Data Science Festival: What makes an effective data team?

Data Science Festival: Machine learning in real-time: the next frontier

Snowplow 87 Chichen Itza released

Snowplow 85 Metamorphosis released with beta Apache Kafka support

Asynchronous micro-services and Crunch Budapest 2016

Schema registries and Strata + Hadoop World NYC 2016

Introducing Sauna, a decisioning and response platform

Snowplow Scala Analytics SDK 0.1.0 released

Google Accelerated Mobile Pages adds support for Snowplow

2015-2016 winternship wrap-up

Snowplow 76 Changeable Hawk-Eagle released

Anton Parkhomenko is a Snowplower!

Unified Log London 4 on Apache ZooKeeper and analytics on write with AWS Lambda

Snowplow 72 Great Spotted Kiwi released

Orchestrating batch processing pipelines with cron and make

Samza Scala example project released

Improving Snowplow's understanding of time

SQL Runner 0.2.0 released

Huskimo 0.3.0 released: warehouse your Twilio telephony data in Redshift

Introducing our 2015 Snowplow summer interns

Huskimo 0.2.0 released: warehouse your Singular marketing spend data in Redshift

Snowplow 66 Oriental Skylark released

Unified Log London 3 with Apache Kafka and Samza at State

Spark Example Project 0.3.0 released for getting started with Apache Spark on EMR

Announcing our summer open source internship program

Snowplow 63 Red-Cheeked Cordon-Bleu released

Snowplow ActionScript 3 Tracker 0.1.0 released

Snowplow 62 Tropical Parula released

Snowplow 61 Pygmy Parrot released

Joshua Beemster is a Snowplower!

Snowplow Objective-C Tracker 0.3.0 released

Introducing our 2014-2015 Snowplow winterns

Snowplow Java Tracker 0.7.0 released

Modeling events through entity snapshotting

Snowplow 0.9.14 released with additional webhooks

New Java and Android Tracker versions released

Building robust data pipelines in Scala – Session at Scala eXchange, December 2014

London NoSQL talk on Snowplow

Snowplow 0.9.11 released with support for webhooks

Snowplow iOS Tracker 0.2.0 released

Snowplow 0.9.10 released with support for new JavaScript Tracker v2.1.0 events

Span Conference and Why your company needs a Unified Log

Berlin trip round-up

The Snowplow team will be in the Bay Area and Seattle in October – get in touch if you'd like to meet

Snowplow 0.9.8 released for mobile analytics

Snowplow 0.9.7 released with important bug fixes

Introducing our Snowplow summer interns

Unified Log Processing is now available from Manning Early Access

Snowplow 0.9.5 released with JSON validation and shredding

Fred Blundun is a Snowplower!

Iglu schema repository 0.1.0 released

Snowplow Java Tracker 0.1.0 by Kevin Gleason released

Budapest Data round-up

Snowplow 0.9.3 released with Clojure Collector fixes

Introducing self-describing JSONs

Introducing SchemaVer for semantic versioning of schemas

Snowplow 0.9.2 released to support new CloudFront log format

Spark Example Project released for running Spark jobs on EMR

Snowplow 0.9.1 released with initial JSON support

Snowplow Python Tracker 0.1.0 by wintern Anuj More released

Introduction to Snowplow – Talk at Big Data and Data Science Israel

The Snowplow team will be in Israel and Cyprus in March – get in touch if you'd like to meet

Building an event grammar – understanding context

LSUG talk – Building data processing apps in Scala, the Snowplow experience

Snowplow 0.9.0 released with beta Amazon Kinesis support

Inaugural meetup of the Amazon Kinesis – London User Group

Snowplow JavaScript Tracker 0.13.0 released with custom contexts

A guide to custom contexts in Snowplow JavaScript Tracker 0.13.0

The Snowplow team will be in New York in February – get in touch if you'd like to meet

The three eras of business data processing

Scala Forex library by wintern Jiawen Zhou released

Snowplow 0.8.12 released with a variety of improvements to the Scalding Enrichment process

Introducing our Snowplow winterns