Summary
Todd Mcgrath is a senior solution architect with 15+ years building and scaling real-time data platforms, now helping customers unlock value at Databricks after leading AWS’s global Data Streaming Specialist team. He combines deep hands-on expertise with Kafka, Flink, Kinesis and streaming architectures with a proven track record as a top revenue-producing advisor and published industry speaker. Todd’s background as a founder who scaled a million-dollar consulting business gives him uncommon commercial instincts for product-market fit, GTM experiments, and bridging engineering with sales. He’s known for turning field insights into product strategy, orchestrating global cross-functional efforts, and making complex streaming systems cost-effective and operationally resilient. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs technical authority with pragmatic storytelling to drive measurable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
History Grammar Nihongo, History Grammar Nihongo at Osaka Gakuin University
BA Japanese, BA Japanese at University of St. Thomas
English, Japanese