Team
Our goal is to recruit and retain people who are the best at what they do — people who are motivated to achieve results, have high standards of quality and integrity, possess a flexible, entrepreneurial spirit and want to develop to their full potential.
Mike Olson
Michael Olson was formerly CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle Corporation as Vice President for Embedded Technologies after Oracle's acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Prior to joining Sleepycat, Mike held technical and business roles at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra Information Technologies and Informix Software. Mike has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Jeff Hammerbacher
Jeff was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Accel Partners immediately prior to Cloudera. Before Accel, he conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. The Data team was responsible for driving many of the applications of statistics and machine learning at Facebook, as well as building out the infrastructure to support these tasks for massive data sets. The Data team produced open source projects such as Hive and Cassandra and their work was recognized at conferences such as CHI, ICWSM, SIGMOD, and VLDB. Before joining Facebook, Jeff was a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. Jeff earned his Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University and recently served as a Managing Editor for O'Reilly's "Beautiful Data".
Dr. Amr Awadallah
Dr. Amr Awadallah co-founded VivaSmart in June of 1999. Yahoo! acquired VivaSmart in June 2000, and uses the VivaSmart technology as the core of the Yahoo! shopping service. Amr served as Vice President of Engineering, and led a team that used Hadoop extensively for data analysis and business intelligence across the Yahoo! online services. Before starting Cloudera, Amr was an Entreprenuer-in-Residence at Accel partners from June 2008 to Oct of 2008. Amr holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Aaron Kimball
Aaron Kimball has been working with Hadoop since early 2007. Aaron has worked with the NSF and several other universities nationally and internationally to advance education in the field of large-scale data-intensive computing. He helped create and deliver academic course materials first used at the University of Washington (and later adopted by many other academic institutions) as well as Hadoop training materials used by several industry partners. Aaron has also worked as an independent consultant focusing on Hadoop and Amazon EC2-based systems. At Cloudera, he continues to actively develop Hadoop and related tools, as well as focus on training and user education. Aaron holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and an M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington.
Tom White
Tom White has been an Apache Hadoop committer since February 2007, and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation. He is the author of "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide" published by O'Reilly. Previously he worked as an independent consultant specializing in Hadoop, and before that was co-founder and Lead Developer at Kizoom, a UK mobile application startup. Tom has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a Master's degree in History and Philosophy of Science from the Universities of Leeds, UK, and Florence, Italy.
Alex Loddengaard
Alex Loddengaard joined Cloudera after graduating with a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington where he was awarded the Bob Bandes Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching. Prior to working at Cloudera, Alex interned at Google as a Software Development Engineer and at Redfin as a Product Manager. Alex works closely with many of Cloudera's customers, helping them with their issues and teaching them about Hadoop.
Philip Zeyliger
Philip Zeyliger came to Cloudera from Google, where he worked on scalable storage for user-facing applications. Before that, he worked in finance, at D.E. Shaw. Philip holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University. His interests include systems and databases. He's a committer on the Apache Avro project.
Aaron Newton
Aaron Newton came to Cloudera after founding online social aggregator Iminta.com. He is a product manager, developer, interface designer, writer, and contributor to the Mootools Javascript framework where he contributes code and documentation. He is the author of free online tutorials and the first Mootools book published by Apress. His experience includes founding music startup, Epitonic.com, launching CNET's Download.com Music, and several years product managing application development for various projects at CNET Networks. His main responsibility at Cloudera is designing and developing the user interfaces for various Cloudera products.
Matt Massie
Matt Massie conceived and implemented the Ganglia cluster and Grid monitoring system in 2000 while working as a Staff Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. Today, Ganglia enjoys wide adoption and demonstrates scalability on clusters with thousands of nodes and Grids spanning the globe. His academic papers on distributed cluster monitoring have been cited in hundreds of subsequent articles. Prior to his work at Berkeley, Matt did scientific programming at Purdue University and Washington University Medical Center focused on Neuroscience, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics.
Todd Lipcon
Todd Lipcon joined Cloudera from Amie Street, where he worked on infrastructure, operations, data mining, and product development. Previously, Todd interned at Google developing anti-fraud methods for the Risk Engineering group. Todd is a graduate of Brown University, where he completed an honors thesis developing a new collaborative filtering algorithm for the Netflix Prize Competition. At Cloudera, Todd contributes to several products including Hadoop.
Henry Robinson
Henry Robinson joined from the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral work was on mobile distributed systems. Prior to his PhD work, Henry was an analyst at Goldman Sachs, where he worked on automated trading of fixed income securities. He also holds a BSc in computer science from the University of York and a Master's degree in speech processing and computational linguistics from Cambridge. He is a committer on the Apache ZooKeeper project, and works as a software engineer at Cloudera on large-scale distributed systems.
Chad Metcalf
Chad Metcalf joined Cloudera from Arch Rock Corporation, where he was the QA and release manager. Prior to Arch Rock, Chad worked for SRI and SAIC as a System Engineer doing research and development in information management, distributed computing, and robotics. Chad holds a Master's in Mathematics and Computer Science from Colorado School of Mines and a Bachelor's in Molecular Biology from the University of Denver.
Carl Steinbach
Carl Steinbach came to Cloudera from Informatica where he worked on ETL software. Before that he worked at NetApp on storage security products, and at Oracle in the Server Technologies group. Carl holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Computer Science from MIT.
Eli Collins
Eli Collins came to Cloudera from VMware, where he worked on the virtual machine monitor (VMM) and VMkernel. Eli holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from New York University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively.
Jonathan Hsieh
Jonathan Hsieh joined Cloudera from the University of Washington where his research focused on scalable, distributed, stream-filtering systems. Prior to earning a M.S. in Computer Science from UW, Jonathan worked for the U.S. Department of Defense where he focused on computer security. He also holds an M.S. and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Doug Cutting
Doug Cutting is a founder of the Apache Hadoop and Lucene projects. He joined Cloudera after three years at Yahoo!. Prior to that, Doug worked at Excite, Apple and Xerox PARC. He has a bachelor's degree in Linguistics from Stanford University.
Alex Kozlov
Alex Kozlov has over 15 years of experience in distributed processing, data analysis and data warehousing at SGI, Hewlett-Packard, Turn, and Adchemy. Alex received an equivalent of Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics from Moscow State University in 1988 and earned another doctorate in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1998.
bc Wong
bc Wong joined Cloudera after a year of globetrotting, trekking in the Himalayas and the Andes, and diving at the Great Barrier Reef. Before that, he was the NFS project lead at NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco), building a high performance NFS virtualization solution and an online data migration engine. He also ran a photographic equipment retail business. bc graduated from Stanford University with an M.S. and a B.S. in Computer Science.
Patrick Angeles
Patrick Angeles has a combined 14 years of experience in various technical roles in Data Analytics, Winery E-Commerce, Security and Cryptography. Prior to joining Cloudera, Patrick was a Senior Technology Architect at Simulmedia, where he lead the design and development of a behavioral analytics platform for cable television. Patrick holds a dual major in English and Computer Science from Oberlin College.
Omer Trajman
Omer Trajman was previously a Senior Director at Vertica Systems where he was responsible for the company's cloud computing and virtualization initiatives as well as integration with Apache Hadoop. In his prior role as Director of Field Engineering, he built and managed Vertica’s customer facing team, responsible for ensuring success from pre-sales to production. He has supervised large-scale implementations of the grid-based, column-oriented Vertica Analytic Database at companies such as Verizon, Comcast, JP Morgan, Guess?, Vonage and Mozilla.
Ed Albanese
Ed Albanese leads business development and strategic alliances at Cloudera. Ed's enterprise software career spans 15 years across roles in marketing, sales, engineering and consulting. Organizations have included VMware, Microsoft, Virtual Computer, Bose, Clark University, and MRO Software (IBM-acquired). Ed received a BA from the University of Virginia and MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Janice Mandeville
Janice Mandeville was previously a COO, CFO and Controller at several start-ups she co-founded, and managed Investor Relations for a public company. She received her MBA from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Arvind Prabhakar
Arvind Prabhakar came to Cloudera from Informatica where he architected the Metadata Repository Server and Informatica Modeling Framework. Prior to that Arvind worked at Sun on the OpenSSO and Access Manager projects. Arvind holds a B.Tech degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Mumbai and an MS degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.
Eric Sammer
Eric is a Solution Architect and Training Instructor at Cloudera. Prior to joining Cloudera, he held roles including System Architect, Director of Technical Operations, and Tech Lead at various New York City startups focusing on distributed data collection, processing, and reporting systems. Eric has over 12 years in development and technical operations and has contributed to various open source projects such as Gentoo Linux.
Alex Newman
Alex Newman came from Factset where he used Hadoop and HBase in a large scale production environment. Alex is one of the original coauthors of CLASP which became the OWASP project and is referenced in numerous security standards. He received numerous patents while at Intel Research on detecting and mitigating fast spreading worms. Alex is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he completed a master's thesis on delay tolerant networking.
John Kreisa
Prior to joining Cloudera, John was responsible for product and industry marketing at information infrastructure vendor Mark Logic Inc. While there he led industry focused marketing activities providing focused sales tools, messaging and coordinating demand generation initiatives. At Mark Logic he was also responsible for leading product pricing, packaging and launch activities. Widely quoted, he was a primary spokes person to media, analyst and at a wide range of industry events. Prior to Mark Logic John was at Business Objects marketing in the high-growth business intelligence market. John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Marcus McLaughlin
Marcus McLaughlin came to Cloudera from a role as lead front-end engineer for Adopilot. Prior to that he was a front-end engineer at imeem and Intuit, following internships at Microsoft and Accenture. Marcus holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Patrick Hunt
Patrick Hunt is the project lead for Apache Hadoop's ZooKeeper project. He joins Cloudera after five years at Yahoo! where he worked in the search, ad technologies, and cloud computing groups specializing in large-scale distributed systems architecture. During this time he also drove development of the critically acclaimed Delicious firefox extension. Prior to joining Yahoo Patrick worked on enterprise software, founded a startup, designed high performance network software and dabbled a bit with rocket science (NASA). He has a bachelors degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Aaron T. Myers
Aaron Myers comes to Cloudera from Amie Street, where he worked on all aspects of the software stack, including ops, infrastructure, and customer-facing feature development. Before Amie Street, Aaron interned at Google in 2007 and Macromedia in 2005. Aaron holds both an Sc.B. and an Sc.M. in Computer Science from Brown University, where he focused on systems security and multiprocessor synchronization.
Vinithra Varadharajan
Vinithra Varadharajan came to Cloudera from Endeca Technologies, where she worked on building scalable enterprise engines. She is a recipient of the Google Anita Borg award, which recognizes women for their potential to excel and lead in the field of computing. She has a Masters in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, where she created educational software for deaf students called DeSIGN, in addition to her research on Haptics of deformable objects. She has a BEng. in Computer Systems Engineering from Cardiff University, U.K, where she was awarded the prize for the Best Final Year Undergraduate in School of Engineering. She is fluent in English, German, Hindi and Tamil.
Josh Patterson
Josh Patterson is a Solution Architect at Cloudera. Prior to joining Cloudera, he was responsible for bringing Hadoop into the smartgrid during his involvement in the openPDC project. His focus in the smartgrid realm with Hadoop and HBase was using machine learning to discover and index anomolies in time series data. Josh is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a Bachelors in Business Management and a Masters of Computer Science with a thesis titled "TinyTermite: A Secure Routing Algorithm" where he worked in mesh networks and swarm algorithms. Josh has over 13 years in software development and continues to contribute to projects in the open source community.
Jeff Bean
Jeff Bean comes to Cloudera with a background in software development, training, and presales consulting. He was part of an advanced proof of concept team at IBM/Cognos that made recommendations to existing and potential customers about how to develop with Cognos Business Intelligence software. Prior to that he was at BEA Systems working with ISV and SI partners on BEA Weblogic Communications Platform. Prior to that he was a software developer. Jeff has 10+ years of customer service and software development experience in Java and Linux.