Lenni Kuff
Self Employed
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLenni Kuff is a technically strong engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure, observability, and deployment safety for some of the largest distributed systems in the world. At Meta he led 30–40+ engineer teams across Change Management, CI/CD, orchestration, and observability, establishing a company-wide Change Safety program that helped prevent costly incidents and contributed to hundreds of millions in avoided revenue loss. Before Meta he drove 0→1 product launches and team growth at Cloudera and contributed to Apache projects like Impala and Sentry, bringing deep open-source and data infrastructure expertise. Lenni blends hands-on system design with people leadership—hiring, growing, and aligning global teams to technical strategy and operational rigor. Currently on a planned sabbatical focused on family and health, he remains engaged with infrastructure trends, AI/ML deployment safety, and organizational design. Based in New York, he’s equally comfortable diving into code-level reliability problems and shaping cross-org initiatives that reduce risk at scale.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering Computer Science, Computer Engineering Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (15)
olap10
big-data10
spark10
hadoop10
apache10
sql10
impala10
tpc9
sentry8
hiveserver28
api7
python6
hive4
presto4
java1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cloudera/Impala
May 2012 - Jan 2015
Real-time Query for Hadoop; mirror of Apache Impala
Contributions:1310 commits in 2 years 8 months
queryapache-impalaolapsqlapache
apache/incubator-sentry
Oct 2014 - Mar 2016
Mirror of Apache Sentry
Contributions:61 commits in 1 year 4 months
sentryapache
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