10 Cloudera engineering leaders
Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise AI, Senior Director of Engineering & Hungary Site Lead and Director, Impala and Kudu Development are among the current titles held by these Cloudera engineering leaders, who also lead platform and data engineering groups. A reader can learn how engineering leaders work at Cloudera from people who have held the role.
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Aman Sinha
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Cloudera
Aman Sinha has been Director of Engineering at Cloudera since August 2022, based in San Jose, California, and describes experience building Big Data and Database software. At Cloudera, Aman Sinha was also Senior Engineering Manager from 2021 to 2022 and Principal Software Engineer from 2019 to 2021, and was Software Architect at MapR Technologies from 2018 to 2019.
Béla Ányos
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering & Hungary Site Lead · Cloudera
Béla Ányos has been Senior Director of Engineering & Hungary Site Lead at Cloudera since June 2024, based in Budapest, and was Director Of Engineering at Cloudera from 2021 to 2024. Béla Ányos was Director of Engineering - Central/Pro/Hamachi at LogMeIn from 2017 to 2021 and Director of Engineering - LastPass at LogMeIn from 2016 to 2017.
Chris Cantú
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Cloudera
Chris Cantú has been Director of Engineering at Cloudera since June 2026, based in Austin, Texas. Chris Cantú was Director of Engineering at Procore Technologies from 2023 to 2026, Director of Engineering at Expedia Group from 2020 to 2021 and Senior Engineering Manager at Expedia Group from 2016 to 2020.
Gunnar Tapper
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Software Engineering · Cloudera
Gunnar Tapper has been Senior Director of Software Engineering at Cloudera since August 2021, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. At Cloudera, Gunnar Tapper was also Director of Software Engineering from 2018 to 2021 and Senior Software Development Manager from 2017 to 2018, and was an Apache Committer at The Apache Software Foundation from 2012 to 2021.
Jayush Luniya
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Cloudera
Jayush Luniya has been Senior Director of Engineering at Cloudera since January 2019, based in Redmond, Washington. Jayush Luniya was VP, Apache Ambari at The Apache Software Foundation from 2018 to 2023 and Engineering Manager, Hortonworks Operational Experience at Hortonworks from 2014 to 2019.
Kurt Deschler
LinkedInExperience: Director, Impala and Kudu Development · Cloudera
Kurt Deschler has been Director, Impala and Kudu Development at Cloudera since August 2022, with a headline of Director of Engineering - Data Platform Impala, Kudu, and Hive, based in Sudbury, Massachusetts. At Cloudera, Kurt Deschler was also Senior Manager, Impala and Kudu Development from 2021 to 2022 and Principal Software Engineer from 2019 to 2021.
Shubho Sinha
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise AI · Cloudera
Shubho Sinha has been Vice President of Engineering, Enterprise AI at Cloudera since October 2024, based in Santa Clara, California. At Cloudera, Shubho Sinha was also Senior Director Of Engineering, Enterprise AI from 2021 to 2024, Director Of Engineering, Enterprise AI from 2019 to 2021 and Sr. Engineering Manager, Enterprise AI Platform from 2018 to 2019.
Srihari Srinivasan
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering - Platform Engineering · Cloudera
Srihari Srinivasan has been Director of Engineering - Platform Engineering at Cloudera since February 2023, based in Bengaluru, India. Srihari Srinivasan was Senior Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering at Cloudera from 2020 to 2023, Solutions Engineering Lead, India & Middle East at Hortonworks from 2017 to 2019 and Head of Technology, India at Thoughtworks from 2012 to 2016.
Sunitha Velpula
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering · Cloudera
Sunitha Velpula has been Vice President of Engineering at Cloudera since April 2025, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the profile also lists Senior Director of Engineering there as current from 2020. Sunitha Velpula was Director Of Engineering at Cloudera from 2019 to 2020 and Director of Engineering at Hortonworks from 2017 to 2019.
Tom An
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering - Data Engineering & Container Platform · Cloudera
Tom An has been Director of Engineering - Data Engineering & Container Platform at Cloudera since January 2021, based in Seattle. Tom An was also Vice President, Apache Ambari (Open Source Leadership Role) at The Apache Software Foundation from 2019 to 2021, and was Engineering Manager – Hortonworks Operational Experience at Hortonworks from 2015 to 2021.
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