About

Neil Kodner is an experienced and passionate leader with a focus on building amazing teams, datasets, services, and tools. With over 28 years of relevant experience, he has contributed across a variety of data-focused disciplines. Currently, he serves as the Data Engineering Manager for Infrastructure Strategy at meta, where he develops and supports Data Engineering teams across Privacy, Security, Hardware Analytics, and Reliability Engineering verticals. In his past roles, Neil has supported Data Engineering teams within the Infrastructure org across the Privacy, Security, Hardware Analytics, and Reliability Engineering verticals at meta. At Lacework, he served as the Principal Data Engineer, where he built a Data Engineering hiring pipeline from scratch, resulting in 5 offer accepts. He also reduced Snowflake storage costs by $1.2M annually by identifying hidden costs occupied by petabytes of out-of-date zero-copy clones and drove the fix across engineering resulting in $1.2M annual savings. Neil's educational background includes a degree from the University of Miami and the University of Illinois, where he studied from 1989 to 1993. His technical skills include expertise in Data Engineering, infra, Senior Software Engineer, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, and CI/CD. As a leader, Neil is known for his ability to build and lead high-performing teams. He has a track record of delivering results and driving change across organizations. With his passion for data-focused disciplines and his ability to lead and contribute across a variety of areas, he is a valuable asset to any organization looking to build and maintain a strong data infrastructure.