Technology

SVP of Engineering | Senior Technology Executive
Westford, MA · jpiekos@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/johnpiekos

25+ years leading global engineering organizations through inflection points of change and growth — AI-powered product transformations, scaling teams from startups to Fortune 500, and driving 30%+ productivity gains through agentic development practices. Recognized thought leader in behavioral data infrastructure, real-time computing, and engineering culture transformation.

Experience

Senior Vice President of Engineering, Snowplow Analytics

Feb 2023 – Present

Lead a global engineering organization of 60+ spanning software development, SRE, IT Services, Security/Compliance, and Customer Support. Snowplow is the leader in customer data infrastructure for AI, processing trillions of behavioral events per quarter for 240+ enterprise customers across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Senior Director, Engineering: CDP One SaaS & Control Plane SRE, Cloudera, Inc.

Jun 2021 – Dec 2022

Led 100+ engineers across the global CDP One SaaS development, SaaS Ops automation, and Global SRE organizations operating three PaaS control planes across U.S., EU, and APAC regions.

Vice President of Engineering & Global Customer Support, Cazena, Inc.

Feb 2018 – Jun 2021

Acquired by Cloudera, June 2021. Led 30+ SWEs, SREs, and Customer Success teams delivering fully managed SaaS Data Lakes and Machine Learning applications in AWS and Azure across 7 global regions.

Vice President of Engineering & Chief Security Officer, VoltDB, Inc.

Oct 2011 – Feb 2018

Scaled engineering from 5 to 40+ individuals across software development, security, QA, customer support, and documentation. Served as Chief Product Owner for product strategy, roadmap, and IP.

Earlier roles

Director, Database Engineering, Progress Software (2009–2011) · Sr. Director & VP, Web Engineering, EasyAsk, Inc. / Progress Software (2000–2009) · Director, Mercator Software · Director/Chief Architect, Novera Software · Staff Engineer, Sybase · Principal Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation

See the old resume page for the full detail on these earlier roles.

Education & certifications

M.S., Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute · B.S., Computer Science (Cum Laude), University of Massachusetts Lowell

AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty · AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) · Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) · Certified Product Manager

Also

Harvard University Extension School — Teaching Fellow & Course Developer, Java for Distributed Programming (1999–2009) · Former InfoWorld columnist on real-time computing · MassChallenge Mentor (2017–present) · Multiple patent holder in search, navigation, and database technologies

Writing at Agile Making Progress.