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Cedric Hnyda

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Director of Engineering at Cloudera
📍 Prague, Czechia

Cedric Hnyda is the Director of Engineering at Cloudera, a role he took on after Cloudera acquired his startup, Taikun. He is a hands-on engineer with a background in building cloud management platforms, systems, and teams from the ground up. He holds a Masters degree from EPITA, an engineering school in Paris.

He co-founded Taikun to simplify multicloud management, which was later acquired by Cloudera in 2025.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Prague, Czechia
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Cloud Native Platforms
Co-founded Taikun to build a management platform for Kubernetes clusters on OpenStack, AWS, Azure, and GCP, demonstrating deep expertise in cloud infrastructure.
Building from Scratch
Expresses a passion for creating products, systems, and teams from the ground up, as evidenced by co-founding a successful startup.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Director of Engineering
Cloudera
2-2018 - 7-2025
Head of Engineering (Acquired by Cloudera)
taikun.cloud
2-2017 - 1-2018
Cloud Engineer
Mirantis
9-2015 - 12-2015
Software Engineer Intern
SUSE
9-2014 - 6-2015
Teaching Assistant
École pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées
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Education
2012 - 2017
Master
EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
2016 - 2017
Master's degree
Brno University of Technology
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