Jeff Nadler

About Jeff Nadler

Software development leader: Jeff has spent 20 years developing class-leading software solutions for Observability, IoT, and other high-data-volume environments. He has deep experience in building scalable solutions using Microservices, Streaming and Batch Big Data, NoSQL Data Stores, Go, Scala, Java, timeseries data stores, search engines, relational databases. Jeff brings a proven ability to lead development teams to success while overcoming technical challenges. Specialties: Observability, Streaming Data Processing, Scalable Distributed Systems, Enterprise Software Development, Agile Methodology, Scrum, Systems Architecture, Machine Learning, Software Project Management, Web User Interface, Microservices, Test-Driven Development, Developer Mentoring App Development: Go, Scala, Java, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Apache Storm, Spring, REST APIs, Functional Programming, Design Patterns, C#/.NET, Performance Optimzation Data Stores: DynamoDB, Cassandra, TimescaleDB, Hive, Couchbase, CockroachDB, MySQL, Redis, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, SQLite Search: Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

   Lambda

   Jul 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Leading 4 teams and 20+ engineers across a rapidly growing Platform Engineering organization. Our mission is to speed time-to-delivery and improve quality and reliability of Lambda\'s products. We offer an instantly-adoptable internal developer platform including both infrastructure and code foundations. Internal Platform portfolio currently includes:* Kubernetes, both Cloud and Bare Metal deployments* Manged Databases using Postgres* Managed Messaging using NATS* Managed Cache using Valkey* Observability Platforms for Metrics base on Prometheus/Thanos/Mimir* Observability Platforms for Logging based on NATS and Clickhouse* CI/CD Systems based on Github Actions and Buildkite* Cloud IaC based on Terraform and AtlantisAn evolving abstraction layer ties these foundations together into a single coherent platform with a reduced surface area, allowing easy adoption and further reducing the burden on product engineering teams.In this role I coach/mentor/grow both our ICs and engineering managers. I also manage several vendors with multi-million USD annual budget.

Education

• Lehigh University

  B.S. College of Engineering, Computer Science

  1991 — 1996

Skills

• Apache Spark
• Hadoop
• Cassandra
• Apache Kafka
• Agile Methodologies
• Scala
• Apache Storm
• Java
• Scrum
• Web Applications
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Software Development
• Angular.js
• Spring
• Web Services
• Javascript
• Enterprise Architecture
• Test Driven Development
• Couchbase
• Mongodb
• Software Project Management
• Jquery
• J2ee
• Linux
• Oracle
• Business Intelligence
• Enterprise Software
• Soa
• Object Oriented Design
• Design Patterns
• Java Enterprise Edition
• C#
• Cloud Computing
• Sql
• .net
• Css3
• Html 5
• User Interface
• Software Design
• Microsoft Sql Server