Ed Anuff
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorEd Anuff is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur who has shaped API-first, data-driven platforms over three decades. As Chief Product Officer at DataStax, he steered the cloud-native, AI-first data platform and led the GenAI pivot, including Langflow, a strategy that culminated in IBM's 2025 acquisition of the company. Now at IBM, he serves as VP of Open Platform Strategy, Data and AI, guiding tooling across Langflow, Docling, MCP, and the WatsonX portfolio. His career spans leadership roles at Apigee (acquired by Google), Google Cloud Platform, and pioneering ventures like Usergrid and Epicentric, underscoring a track record of bringing enterprise APIs and portal platforms to market at scale. An active open-source contributor, he has worked on Apache Usergrid and the Cassandra hector client, blending hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership. Based in San Francisco, Ed marries entrepreneurial drive with a deep technical toolkit to build, scale, and connect data, APIs, and AI at enterprise scale.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
javas10
user-authentication10
authentication10
data-serialization10
back-end-development10
cassandra10
java10
serialization10
api-design9
thrift9
restful-api9
rest-api9
javascript9
javascripts9
api-rest9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/usergrid
Sep 2011 - Aug 2014
Mirror of Apache Usergrid
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:460 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily worked on back-end features in the Usergrid project. Their contributions focused on refining the user login process and fixing issues in creating users. They were also involved in code changes in the portal javascript for handling user logins.
javaapache
hector-client/hector
Oct 2010 - Apr 2012
a high level client for cassandra
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:114 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to the development of a high-level client for Cassandra. Their work involved modifying core Java code related to querying and data serialization within the `hector` library. They added features like `fromBytesList` methods for handling byte array keys and enhanced the `BatchMutation` class to correctly process byte array keys internally. The user also created and modified several utility methods that were used to add new keyspaces and column family definitions.
high-levelcassandra
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