Erik Bergenholtz
Vice President, Strategy And Operations
Longboat Key, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolErik Bergenholtz is a seasoned technology leader with 12+ years driving engineering, strategy, and operations at Oracle, currently serving as Vice President, Strategy and Operations after leading engineering since 2016. He prioritizes people and process over technology, focusing on effective, sustainable solutions that improve lives and scale across complex systems. Technically grounded, Erik contributes to open-source big data tooling—work on Apache Ambari shows hands-on experience integrating HDFS and Hive HA support and resolving production issues like downloader integrity. His background blends aeronautical and systems engineering (BS/MS from Embry-Riddle) with advanced studies at Penn/Wharton, enabling him to bridge technical depth and business strategy. Based in Longboat Key, Florida, he enjoys applying big data to previously infeasible problems, from genomics to space exploration. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who favors effectiveness before efficiency and mentors teams to deliver lasting impact.
12 years of coding experience
BS, BS at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityMSE, MSE at University of Pennsylvania - SEAS / The Wharton School
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Github Skills (10)
javas10
hdfs10
apache-hive10
java10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
linux6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
apache/ambari
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Erik's contributions primarily involve modifications to Java files within the `contrib/views/hive` directory of the `apache/ambari` repository. These changes include the addition of NameNode HA support, the configuration and handling of HDFS-related operations, and the integration of changes that ensure the correct behavior of the Hive View in HA environments. They also made changes related to the capacity scheduler and handling of the trash directory. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by modifying the download process to resolve file size discrepancies when downloading zip files.
provisioningpythonclustersjavascriptapache
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