Phillip LeBlanc

Software Engineer, co-founder @ Spice AI

About

I'm building the operational data lakehouse at Spice AI — an open-source SQL query and hybrid search engine for data-intensive apps and AI agents.

Originally from Louisiana. Lived in Seattle for 5 years. Now based in South Korea.

Spice AI — Building the operational data lakehouse: an open-source SQL query and hybrid search engine for data-intensive apps and AI agents.
Microsoft — Azure Active Directory (2012–2017), Visual Studio App Center (2017–2019), GitHub Actions (2020).

Active contributor to the Apache Arrow ecosystem:

spiceai/spiceai — Primary maintainer. Open-source data infrastructure for real-time analytics.
datafusion-table-providers — Lead maintainer. DataFusion table providers for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, DuckDB, and more.
Apache DataFusion — Contributor. Query engine for building SQL-based analytics applications.
Apache DataFusion Ballista — Contributor. Distributed query execution engine.
Apache Arrow (Rust) — Contributor. In-memory columnar data format.
Apache Iceberg (Rust) — Contributor. Open table format for large analytic datasets.

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