Greg Neiheisel
Founder at Astronomer
Summary
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RockstarGreg Neiheisel is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building data infrastructure and developer-first tooling, best known for founding Astronomer to help organizations automate data pipelines with Apache Airflow. Based in the Cincinnati area, he combines hands-on engineering with product and company-building experience from multiple startups and early-stage roles dating back to 2009. His background in Decision Sciences and Information Systems informs a pragmatic approach to observability, scheduling, and data engineering workflows. Greg has repeatedly moved from code to company leadership—co-founding Trippo and USERcycle before scaling Astronomer—bringing an operator’s mindset to open-source-led platform development. Known for translating complex orchestration needs into usable platforms, he focuses on making Airflow deployments repeatable, observable, and production-ready.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (186)
python10
bash10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
confluent-platform10
orchestration10
apache-airflow10
oh-my-zsh10
priority-queue10
data-engineering10
charts10
scheduler10
helm10
elt10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
astronomer/install.astronomer.io
Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
Small proxy and script to install the Astronomer CLI
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 5 months
astronomerproxydockerkubernetescli
tspannhw/airflow-chart
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
A Helm chart to install Apache Airflow on Kubernetes
Contributions:30 commits in 1 year 1 month
charthelmhelm-chartapachehelm-charts
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