Jean-Daniel Cryans

Senior Software Engineer

Menlo Park, California, United States20 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Big Data technologies and distributed systems.
Proven leadership in managing engineering teams.
Significant contributions to open source projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Big Data and Open Source expert with strong leadership in engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Big DataSoftware EngineeringDistributed Systems

Other Skills

HadoopHBaseApache KuduTeam ManagementReplicationCachingScalingData MiningArchitectureMapReduceGitOpen SourceSubversionHiveApache

Experience

20 yrs

Total Experience

5 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

17 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Cloudflare

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Elastic

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Mar 2025 – Sep 2025 · 6 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · Remote

Fauna inc.

Head of Database Engineering

Feb 2021 – Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Cloudera

4 roles

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

I work with the teams who contribute to the Apache Hadoop HDFS, Apache HBase, and Apache Kudu projects.

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Nov 2018 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Managing the team that works on Apache Kudu, among other things.

Engineering Manager

Feb 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

I manage the team that works on Apache Kudu.

Software Engineer

Oct 2012 – Feb 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

I'm on the Storage team which is responsible for Apache Hadoop and HBase. I spend most of my time working on HBase's subsystems like replication and caching. I also try to spread the word via the open source community, conferences and meeting enterprise clients.

Stumbleupon

Database Engineer

Sep 2009 – Sep 2012 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Improving HBase so that it scales to SU's needs.

Openplaces

HBase Consultant

Aug 2008 – Sep 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo

Apache software foundation

HBase committer and PMC member

Jul 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 10 mos

Cyberlogic

Software Developer

Jan 2006 – Mar 2008 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Work on the transition of a legacy HP3000 production system to a client/server Java system. Began the development of the BI module.

Régie de l'assurance maladie du québec

Programmer

Feb 2005 – May 2005 · 3 mos

Education

Université du Québec - École de technologie supérieure

Master — Software Engineering

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011

École de technologie supérieure

B.Eng. — Software Engineering

Jan 2005 – Jan 2009

Cégep de Thetford

DEC — Computer

Jan 2002 – Jan 2005

École de technologie supérieure

M. Eng — Software Engineering

Jan 2009 – Present

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