Summary
Jason Hughes is a seasoned data and platform leader with nine years of experience shaping adoption and best practices for open table formats and analytics at companies like Snowflake and Dremio. As Global Field CTO for Apache Iceberg, he combines deep pre-sales and solution-architecture chops with technical advocacy—he led the O’Reilly book “Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide” and ran Dremio’s Iceberg center of excellence. Jason excels at translating customer needs into product roadmaps, scaling go-to-market motion, and running high-touch POCs that bridge engineering, product, and field teams. He started his career building web applications and analytics solutions, giving him a pragmatic engineering perspective on data platform challenges. Based in San Diego, he’s known for objective, authentic problem solving and for turning complex technical concepts into practical, adoptable guidance.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Western Michigan University