Hi, I'm Tadd. I Build Teams, Products, and Relationships.

I've spent my career at the intersection of technology and people — co-founding startups, shipping products, and building teams from scratch. From writing code and designing data pipelines to leading global delivery teams, I bring a rare combination of deep technical fluency and the ability to translate it into real business outcomes. Whether architecting cloud infrastructure or developing AI-powered tools, I show up as both a hands-on contributor and a strategic leader.

Today at Striim, I lead a global team of Technical Account Managers helping Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, retail, healthcare, and technology unlock the full value of Striim's real-time data integration and streaming platform — from accelerating cloud migrations to powering AI-ready data pipelines.

Startups Open Source Experience
Entrepreneurship

Startups

Digital Minion

Founding Engineer
2014 - 2016, 2022 - 2023
Journey & Impact
  • Joined as one of the founding engineers, contributing to the company's technical foundation and growth
  • Evolved through multiple roles from Senior Full-Stack Engineer to Director of Platform and Engineering
  • Led development of Cloud Security product, managing engineering teams across infrastructure, data platform, backend, and frontend
  • Reduced cloud hosting costs by 67% and decreased release cycles from 3 months to 4 weeks

Contemporary Analysis

Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist
2008 - 2015
Journey & Impact
  • Co-founded and managed company operations with 25+ employees
  • Built and developed Data Science teams from scratch, many from non-traditional backgrounds
  • Led Data Science consulting projects with several Fortune 500 companies
  • Developed one of the first no-code predictive analytics project management platforms
  • Successfully grew the company through strategic client partnerships and innovative product development
Community Contributions

Open Source

Apache Spot

Committer and PMC Leader
August 2017 - February 2023
Contributions & Leadership
  • Contributed to the open source project and co-designed the first versions of the Open Data Model (ODM)
  • Led the PMC to foster discussions in the community, plan new releases, maintain project sites, and submit quarterly reports to the Apache Incubator
  • Partnered with Cloudera and Streamsets on the Apache Spot project integration
Technologies
Apache Spot Wireshark Kafka Javascript Jupyter Notebooks PySpark Python Hadoop
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Technical Capabilities

Expertise

Core Competencies

Data Security and Privacy
Secure-by-design & Privacy-by-design Principles
SDLC & Agile Principles
DevOps & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Project Management & Customer Success
MITRE Framework & Compliance

Cloud & Security Architecture

IAM & Identity Federation
RBAC & ABAC
Least Permissions & Lateral Attack Surfaces
Network Design & Encryption
Data Retention & Global Security Policies
AWS, Azure, GCP

Data Platforms & Technologies

Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)
Snowflake
Hadoop Ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Impala, Spark)
RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle)
NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB)
S3, Azure Blob, GCS

Languages & Frameworks

SQL & Python
TypeScript & JavaScript
Node.js & Angular
Django & R
HTML5/CSS & Bash
Docker & Kubernetes

Data Science & Analytics

Python (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, PySpark)
Cloudera Data Visualization & Tableau
Apache Superset & PowerBI
D3.js & Visualization Libraries
Machine Learning & Statistical Analysis
Jupyter Notebook & R Markdown
Career

Experience

Current Role
January 2024 - Present

Senior Director, Technical Account Management

Striim · Palo Alto, California
Leadership & Impact
  • Leading global team of Technical Account Managers in a player-coach model, directly managing over $15 Million in ARR while building and guiding the team
  • Designed and implemented AI-based solutions to generate customer onboarding plans, account plans, and customer outreach campaigns customized to industry and contextualized to current pain points
  • Created Customer 360 portal tracking customer journey, key metrics, business vs technical risks, churn forecasts, customer profiles, and feature usage metrics
Technologies
Salesforce BigQuery Looker Claude Code Gemini Python Asana
Recent Roles
July 2023 - January 2024

Principal Consultant

Identify Security
Consulting & Advisory
  • Provided expert security consulting services and technical advisory
  • Delivered strategic guidance on security architecture and implementation
Technologies
FTK Autopsy Forensic Toolkit
July 2022 - July 2023

Director, Platform and Engineering

Digital Minion · Remote · Cloud Architecture and Security Posture Management Product
Value & Impact
  • Decreased release cycles from 3 months to just 4 weeks by managing feature scope, facilitating cross-collaboration across each engineering team, and leveraging IaC and CI/CD foundation
  • Managed a team of 6 engineers focusing on SRE, data platform and analytics, backend core processing, and frontend user interface design
  • Lowered AWS cloud hosting costs for the product by 67% through strategic architectural decisions
  • Spearheaded adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, resulting in enhanced scalability, efficiency, and consistency in infrastructure management
  • Streamlined development, testing, and deployment processes by implementing CI/CD at each part of the platform
Technologies
AWS Lambda SQS DynamoDB API Gateway ECS Fargate CloudFormation GitHub Actions AWS CodeDeploy CI/CD IaC Python Kubernetes
September 2019 - July 2022

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Cloudera · San Francisco Bay Area
Value & Impact
  • Managed and renewed $6M+ in ARR, partnered with Sales and Solutions Engineers on new customer acquisitions and product demo development
  • Scoped and implemented product fixes and features, generated release builds, and created a module for concurrency stress testing
  • Designed and documented core strategies for migrating legacy Arcadia Enterprise product customers onto the new Cloudera Data Visualization (CDV) product
  • Trained Support, Customer Success, and Sales teams on legacy Arcadia product and new Cloudera Visualization product
  • Directly managed Support team for legacy Arcadia product, and assisted in Support cases for new CDV product
Technologies
Cloudera Data Visualization Python SQL Javascript Kubernetes CDP Django Impala
June 2017 - September 2019

Senior Solutions Architect

Arcadia Data · San Francisco Bay Area
Value & Impact
  • Managed and renewed $4M+ in ARR, partnered with Sales and Solutions Engineers on new customer acquisitions and product demo development
  • Led customer Production "go-live" efforts
  • Consulted and delivered presentations and webinars as Cybersecurity SME for all prospecting, customer engagements, and partnerships, including the Apache Spot project with Cloudera and Streamsets
  • Designed strategies for platform tuning, configuration, custom plugins, user management, authorization, version control, and technical support
  • Created training materials and provided on-site and virtual training to several domestic and international blue-chip companies, including international travel to the Philippines and Canada
  • Created documentation, best practices, and frequently published to knowledge base
Technologies
Arcadia Data Kafka KSQL Impala Django Apache Spot Javascript Python
July 2016 - June 2017

Senior Data Engineer - Infosec

eBay · San Francisco Bay Area
Value & Impact
  • Developed eBay Infosec's first Data Science 3-year platform strategy as well as OKRs
  • Created a novel vulnerability management reporting system built on Hadoop, overseeing complex tasks and added several individual contributions developing ingestion pipelines, middleware, and visualizations in less than 6 months
  • Led several Data Science and reporting projects within Infosec
Technologies
Hadoop HDFS Hive Impala Spark Kafka Streamsets Python Splunk HBase
Past Roles
November 2014 - July 2016

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Digital Minion · Remote
Value & Impact
  • Migrated a legacy survey application to an API-first modern web application for a Fortune 50 client
  • Managed client relationship and sprint planning for prioritizing new features and fixes
  • Created a Mobile App API interface to assist in the migration effort
  • Redesigned application security to leverage OAuth and JWT for authentication and authorization
  • Redesigned application data models, input validators, and leveraged different storage mechanisms for optimal performance
Technologies
Angular Node.js MySQL PostgreSQL S3 RabbitMQ OAuth JWT REST APIs Docker Django
March 2008 - March 2015

Chief Data Scientist and Co-Founder

Contemporary Analysis · Omaha, NE
Value & Impact
  • Managed company operations and 25+ employees
  • Hired and developed Data Scientists from scratch, many of which from non-traditional backgrounds
  • Managed and executed consulting projects with several Fortune 500 companies
  • Developed one of the first no-code predictive analytics project management platforms
Technologies
R Python SPSS Gretl Tableau Logi Analytics