Ed Anuff
VP & CPO, IBM Watsonx.data
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEd Anuff is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native data and API platforms, currently serving as VP & CPO for IBM watsonx.data after leading DataStax through a GenAI and cloud transformation that culminated in IBM’s 2025 acquisition. He combines hands-on engineering roots—contributing to Cassandra tooling and Apache Usergrid—with senior product leadership at Google Cloud/Apigee, guiding platform strategy, go-to-market, and major M&A and open-source efforts. Based in San Francisco, Ed is known for turning distributed database and streaming technologies into developer-facing products (Astra DB, Astra Streaming, Langflow) and for steering teams through pivots to AI-first architectures. An author and early web product builder, he blends deep technical fluency with a track record of founding, scaling, and exiting startups while influencing open standards and developer ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management, BS Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (21)
back-end-development10
cassandra10
user-authentication10
authentication10
data-serialization10
java10
serialization10
javas10
api-design9
restful-api9
javascript9
api-rest9
thrift9
rest-api9
html6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/usergrid
Sep 2011 - Aug 2014
Mirror of Apache Usergrid
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:460 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily worked on back-end features in the Usergrid project. Their contributions focused on refining the user login process and fixing issues in creating users. They were also involved in code changes in the portal javascript for handling user logins.
javaapache
hector-client/hector
Oct 2010 - Apr 2012
a high level client for cassandra
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:114 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to the development of a high-level client for Cassandra. Their work involved modifying core Java code related to querying and data serialization within the `hector` library. They added features like `fromBytesList` methods for handling byte array keys and enhanced the `BatchMutation` class to correctly process byte array keys internally. The user also created and modified several utility methods that were used to add new keyspaces and column family definitions.
high-levelcassandra
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