Summary
Jeff Fletcher is a Staff Product Manager Technical at Databricks with over two decades of experience bridging telecoms, internet infrastructure and data/AI productization. Trained as an electrical engineer at the University of the Witwatersrand, he helped build South Africa’s early Internet backbone, founded the country’s first streaming/webcasting company, and later pivoted into machine learning and data platforms. He has held senior field and product roles at Cloudera, Astronomer and Internet Solutions, combining customer-facing technical leadership with hands-on ML engineering. An advocate for better data visualization, he ran a data-vis blog and was shortlisted for an Information is Beautiful award, signaling a rare mix of analytical rigor and design sensitivity. Based in the Netherlands, Jeff excels at translating complex data problems into practical, commercially minded solutions for enterprise customers.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Eng (Electrical), BSc. Eng (Electrical) at University of the Witwatersrand