Jedidiah Cunningham
Principal Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJedidiah Cunningham is a Principal Software Engineer based in Denver with six years of professional experience building and operating backend systems, platform tooling, and data workflow infrastructure. He specializes in Python, Perl, and JavaScript and has a strong track record designing multi-tenant Apache Airflow platforms on Kubernetes to simplify pipeline operations and observability. As an Apache Airflow PMC member and committer, he has contributed backend features and UI improvements to one of the most widely used open-source workflow schedulers. At Astronomer he progressed from senior to principal roles, blending hands-on coding with architecture and platform ownership. Earlier work at Conversant spanned full-stack billing and finance systems, leadership of small engineering teams, and complex migrations that reduced manual processes. His background as a national-level athlete hints at the teamwork and competitive drive he brings to technical leadership and cross-team collaboration.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at California State University Channel Islands
Github Skills (7)
back-end-development10
airflow10
python10
rights-management9
access-management9
permission9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Jun 2020 - Apr 2025
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 4190 reviews, 1878 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jedidiah contributed to various aspects of the Apache Airflow project, focusing primarily on back-end development. They enhanced the functionality of the Viewer role, adding features like "extra_links" permissions, and refactored testing login methods. The contributions also included modifications to the core functionality like adding import error tracebacks to the UI.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
jedcunningham/sample_dags
Mar 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:49 pushes, 7 branches, 1 tag in 4 years
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