John Piekos

John Piekos heads up Snowplow Analytic's engineering operations. He has more than 30 years of experience leading teams and building software, delivering both enterprise and SaaS solutions

John has held tech leadership positions at several companies, most recently at Cloudera (who acquired Cazena) where he lead engineering, ops and SRE for Cloudera's SaaS and PaaS offerings. Prior to Cazena, John was at VoltDB where he lead the development and support of the VoltDB in-memory database, and Progress Software where he led the OpenEdge database, ObjectStore database and Orbix product lines. Previously, John was vice president of Web engineering at EasyAsk, and chief architect at Novera Software, where he led the effort to build the industry’s first Java application server. John holds an MS in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BS in computer science from the University of Lowell.