Bruce Wienand
Software Engineer at Cortex
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Wienand is a founding engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native data pipelines and customer-facing applications, currently focused on automating onboarding and agentic flows at Essential. He previously led FinOps-oriented engineering at Ternary, architecting BigQuery-based pipelines and a high-performance serving layer, and holds FinOps Practitioner certification. At LiveRamp he drove a cloud migration and reliability and cost-savings initiatives that cut team cloud spend by over $1M annually, combining Hadoop/Spark/Kubernetes experience with full-stack work in React and Node. He also brought product-minded engineering to early-stage projects—designing a Flask/Postgres app that tracked thousands of athlete data points for coaches—and pairs a CS degree with a pure math background from the University of Michigan. Based in Grand Rapids, Bruce blends startup founding experience with measurable operational impact and a knack for turning complex data systems into fast time-to-value for customers.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (15)
hadoop9
storm9
loglog8
apache-hadoop8
streaming8
ternary7
cardinality-estimation7
minhash7
apache7
apache-storm6
hyperloglog6
java4
logging3
microservices2
workflow-engine1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TernaryInc/cubejs-go
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 31 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
brucesw/resume
May 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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