Emiran Curtmola
Engineering Leader | Cloud Data Platforms
- Role
- Engineering Manager at Kentik
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Emiran Curtmola
Focused, results-driven Technology Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience in leadership roles on multi-functional & geographically distributed teams developing cutting-edge technology, emphasizing efficiency, innovation, and excellence. Knowledgeable, passionate & innovative leader who creates customized solutions and positive outcomes. Exceptional communication skills to work with individuals of all professional levels, technical aptitude, and personal backgrounds. Excellent management ability to lead successful teams, projects, and activities. Proven track record of leading modern cloud data management products from conception to delivery within time, quality, and financial parameters. Successfully drove technical roadmaps and strategies while ensuring the adoption of the best products in software development and innovation. Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and react quickly to changes in priorities.As a Certified SAFe® 4 Agilist, I build and lead high-performance teams that collaborate with strategy, architecture, quality, innovation, field practitioners, and customers to create differentiating products and empower users with data-driven insights. Strong domain expertise lies in delivering modern cloud data management solutions for big data analytics & AI/ML, large scale data warehousing, parallel and distributed computing, autonomous databases, and enterprise architecture. Led multiple end-to-end initiatives successfully instrumental to enabling company ARR growth, strong customer satisfaction, and accelerated product adoption. To name a few, they include building efficient query processing infrastructure for Vantage Cloud Lake\'s fully managed object store for the cloud to support the modern data lake architecture at Teradata, an intelligent global query optimizer within the cloud data platform, and a native object store solution to facilitate optimum access to data lakes with automatic schema discovery features.I hold a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego, where I conducted research on democratic community-based searches using XML full-text queries.
Experience
Engineering Manager
Feb 2025 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US
Lead and expand the Network Observability Platform\'s Query team at Kentik, specializing in petabyte-scale networking data analytics• Architect and optimize high-performance, data-intensive distributed databases for query systems.
Education
UC San Diego
Ph.D.
2003 — 2009
Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
BS
1998 — 2003
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Ovidius High School, Romania
Computer Science
1994 — 1998
UC San Diego
M.S.
2003 — 2006
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