Eric Kienle is an experienced software executive who specializes in architecting and scaling reliable SaaS platforms, currently serving as Executive Director in Portland, Oregon. He has led architecture for Adobe Experience Platform, Customer Journey Management, and Marketo after a decade as Marketo’s Chief Architect and co-founding Crowd Factory, demonstrating deep domain expertise in marketing automation. Eric is fluent in big data and streaming technologies such as Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark, and is known for squeezing high performance from JVM applications and diverse storage layers (SQL, NoSQL, caching). He combines hands-on technical oversight with strategic leadership, guiding architects and developers to deliver industry-leading products at enterprise scale. His background in biochemistry and biophysics hints at an analytical, systems-thinking approach that complements his engineering instincts. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who turns complex distributed systems challenges into operational, scalable solutions.
2 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State University
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Eric Kienle - Executive Director at Campbell Global