Brad Bukacek is a seasoned solutions engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams that drive revenue and customer success across enterprise data platforms. He has a proven track record shepherding Hortonworks through hypergrowth and a major merger—helping grow ARR from tens of millions to over a billion—and has continued that impact in senior roles at Cloudera and Snowflake. Brad combines deep technical roots in integration and middleware with strategic GTM execution, enabling his teams to translate complex architectures into measurable business outcomes. He prioritizes talent development and retention, turning motivated engineers into trusted sales partners and long-term leaders. Based in Minnesota, he brings a pragmatic, customer-obsessed leadership style that emphasizes openness, humility, and relentless operational rigor. An early career background in Oracle SOA and J2EE gives him uncommon hands-on empathy for engineering challenges behind modern data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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Brad Bukacek - Sr. Manager, Solutions Specialists at Snowflake