Founder/Former CTO - Looker & Co-creator of Malloy | Meta
Lloyd Tabb
Founder/Former CTO - Looker & Co-creator of Malloy | Meta
Lloyd Tabb, a tech pioneer, revolutionized internet and data usage over 30 years. After working as Borland's database architect, he was Principal Engineer at Netscape during the browser wars and helped found Mozilla.org. He later founded Looker, acquired by Google in 2019, which helped define the Modern Data Stack. Now at Meta, he leads Malloy, an experimental language that reimagines SQL with coding libraries, recently transferred to the Linux Foundation. The project has expanded to support Presto, Trino, Snowflake, and other SQL dialects, while adding features like parameterized sources and visual query builders.
