Eric Krenz
Lead Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Krenz is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in large-scale data platforms, distributed systems, and full-stack engineering, currently based in Minneapolis. At Target he progressed from building high-impact, cost-saving full-stack applications to architecting and administering one of the Midwest’s largest Hadoop clusters and an HPC Slurm environment optimized for NVIDIA workloads. He blends hands-on automation (Chef, Ambari, OpenStack) and CI/CD practices with product leadership, having led a team to deliver self-service on-demand Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and Druid provisioning used across the company. Eric has presented work publicly (Dataworks Summit) and contributed productized solutions back to open source, reflecting a practice of sharing engineering improvements beyond his organization. He is motivated by fast-paced, collaborative environments where mentoring, continuous learning, and operational excellence drive measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (16)
cloudera8
java7
governance6
openstack6
spark5
cloud-services4
artificial-intelligence4
data-governance4
data-analytics4
cdp4
big-data4
warehouse4
data-management4
hadoop4
dagster3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
target/REDstack
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
REDstack - Hadoop as a service on OpenStack
Contributions:4 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 10 months
sparkas-a-serviceopenstackhadoopjava
dekarrin/mm22
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 day
gamedevgame-enginegamegame-development
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