Summary
Cliff Gilmore is a Principal Solutions Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and optimizing large-scale streaming and big data systems across enterprises and cloud providers. He has deep technical expertise in Kafka, Cassandra, Hadoop, Solr, Spark and related ecosystems, paired with the customer-facing savvy to translate business needs into production-ready architectures. Cliff has driven architecture and platform strategy at Databricks, Confluent, AWS and major financial and consulting firms, often acting as the bridge between product teams, customers, and support. He emphasizes servant leadership and mentorship, removing obstacles so teams can deliver quickly and reliably. Known for rapid diagnostics drawn from hundreds of deployments, he blends big-picture strategy with the willingness to dive into code and performance tuning. Based in Missouri, he complements his technical depth with an MS in Computer Science and a track record of enabling modern data pipelines across cloud and on-prem environments.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Missouri-Saint Louis