Eric Krenz
Lead Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Krenz is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in large-scale data platforms, distributed systems, and full-stack engineering, currently based in Minneapolis. At Target he progressed from building high-impact, cost-saving full-stack applications to architecting and administering one of the Midwest’s largest Hadoop clusters and an HPC Slurm environment optimized for NVIDIA workloads. He blends hands-on automation (Chef, Ambari, OpenStack) and CI/CD practices with product leadership, having led a team to deliver self-service on-demand Hadoop, Elasticsearch, and Druid provisioning used across the company. Eric has presented work publicly (Dataworks Summit) and contributed productized solutions back to open source, reflecting a practice of sharing engineering improvements beyond his organization. He is motivated by fast-paced, collaborative environments where mentoring, continuous learning, and operational excellence drive measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (10)
cloudera7
openstack6
public-cloud6
java6
hadoop5
big-data4
artificial-intelligence3
data-analytics3
cloud-services2
data-governance2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
target/REDstack
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
REDstack - Hadoop as a service on OpenStack
Contributions:4 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 10 months
hadoopopenstack
krenz444/FurphyBuffButtons
Jan 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:2 releases, 17 pushes, 2 tags in 2 months
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