Cody Zwiefelhofer
Senior Software Engineer at Starburst
River Falls, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Zwiefelhofer is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, currently at Starburst and based in River Falls, Wisconsin. He has led cloud-native architecture and serverless microservices efforts at Optum, driving scalable ETL platforms and a DevOps-first culture that halved release cycles. At Amazon he designed and launched a public global API for Marketplace Web Services, built seller push notifications with SQS/DynamoDB/SNS, and served as a Bar Raiser in hiring decisions for 150+ candidates. Cody routinely mentors technical leads, shapes cloud governance for monolith-to-microservice migrations, and was the first engineer to establish a new Amazon office in Minneapolis. With dual BAs in Computer Science and Professional Journalism, he pairs technical depth with clear communication to turn complex requirements into pragmatic, observable systems. He’s known for pragmatic delivery, strong cross-functional influence, and a focus on automation and scalable data platforms that serve thousands of users.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (46)
trino10
sql-query10
spark10
delta-lake10
apache-flink10
prestodb10
data-science10
warehouse10
databases10
big-data10
data-analytics10
distributed-systems10
hadoop10
indexing10
jdbc10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
codyzwief/trino
Dec 2022 - Jul 2023
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
bigdatabig-datatrinodatabasehadoop
codyzwief/cryptopals_exercises
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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