Jonathan Lacefield
Group Product Manager at Confluent
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Lacefield is a seasoned product leader with over two decades of experience crafting cloud, data, and enterprise software strategies and driving measurable revenue—having led portfolios into nine-figure ARR and delivered 300%+ growth for cloud SaaS in its first GA year. As Group Product Manager at Confluent and formerly leading Temporal Cloud, he blends deep technical expertise in distributed systems, IAM, governance, and operator tooling with hands-on delivery of 0-to-1 features and public GitHub contributions such as Terraform provider work. He excels at translating complex technical requirements into go-to-market strategies, shaping product organizations, and improving cross-functional efficiency while hiring and onboarding critical talent. Jonathan has repeatedly closed large enterprise outcomes (7–8 figure ARR customers) and driven exceptional retention and net dollar retention metrics, reflecting a customer-centric approach to product adoption and expansion. Based in Wilmington, NC, he pairs solution-architect instincts from his early consulting days with executive-level strategy work at DataStax to align compliance, security, and scalability for regulated enterprise customers. Notably, he combines product craft with occasional hands-on code and documentation contributions that strengthen OSS ecosystems around the products he manages.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Kennesaw State University
Github Skills (21)
temporal10
workflow-management10
docusaurus10
distributed-cron9
microservice-framework9
distributed-systems9
docker9
golang9
workflow-automation9
workflow-engine8
datastax8
spark-ml8
parquet5
akka-streams5
scala5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jlacefie/sparksqltest
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
This project provides examples of DataStax Spark SQL funcionality through Scala.
Contributions:33 commits in 1 day
parquetsqlspark-sqlspark-mldatastream
jlacefie/stressdriver
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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