Summary
Dan Cundiff is a seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience building platform and cloud engineering organizations, currently serving as Vice President of Cloud and Platform Engineering at Cencora. He has a proven track record at Fortune-scale retailers—founding Target’s IoT and API platforms, starting their enterprise tech blog, and launching company-wide open source and knowledge management initiatives that produced 142,000+ wiki articles and drove cultural change. Known for pragmatic architecture and developer productivity, he created “Golden Paths” and Agentic SDLC practices to enable teams to ship to production in minutes while embedding AI and observability across the lifecycle. A frequent keynote speaker and inventor (top patent holder at Target), he blends hands-on systems expertise—from LoRaWAN and embedded devices to GraphQL, Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry—with strategic governance-to-guidance enterprise architecture. An unusual detail: many of the internal social and collaboration tools he built were adopted all the way up to the CEO, demonstrating influence that spans technology, process, and people.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Management, Bachelor of Science Management at Purdue University
English, Russian