Tom An
Director, Data & Platform Engineering (Cloud-Native & Containers)
- Role
- Director of Engineering - Data Engineering & Container Platform at Cloudera
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tom An
Deeply experienced in building and evolving data platforms and cloud-native infrastructure, spanning large-scale data engineering, container platforms, and hybrid architectures across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. Brings end-to-end expertise from foundational architecture design through scaled engineering execution. Excels at driving system evolution under high concurrency, high availability, and strict compliance requirements. Well-versed in distributed computing, the Kubernetes ecosystem, security, and cost optimization, with long-term involvement in open-source project governance and evolution. Maintains a strong commitment to engineering excellence and long-term maintainability.
Experience
Director of Engineering - Data Engineering & Container Platform
Jan 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Led Cloudera’s Data Engineering and Container Platform portfolios, contributing to the incubation of CDP and scaling global teams to 100+ engineers. Owned containerized Spark, Airflow, and YARN across cloud and on-prem, driving scalability, security, and cost optimizations including AWS Graviton adoption. Delivered a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform (AWS, Azure, GCP), onboarded data and AI products, achieved FedRAMP Moderate ATO, and drove AIOps initiatives for infrastructure efficiency.
Education
North Carolina State University
MS, Computer Science
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