Summary
Jean-philippe Player is a Field CTO with 13+ years of experience helping enterprises design and deploy data and AI platforms, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has deep expertise across the Hadoop ecosystem and enterprise data engineering from senior technical roles at Cloudera and Hortonworks, where he’s guided customers through large-scale platform adoption. His background blends hands-on engineering and technical sales enablement, dating back to software development and field applications roles in the early 2000s. Jean-philippe is comfortable translating complex architecture into business outcomes and has repeatedly operated at the intersection of product, sales, and customer success. Trained with a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Oxford, he brings both rigorous academic grounding and pragmatic field experience. An understated strength is his ability to drive cross-functional technical programs that turn proof-of-concepts into production-grade data platforms.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of Oxford