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Eric Tschetter

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Chief Architect at Imply
📍 Austin, Texas, United States

Eric Tschetter is the Chief Architect at Imply and the original creator of the open-source Apache Druid project. He is an expert in no-downtime distributed systems and real-time analytics, with previous roles at Splunk and Yahoo. People who have worked with him describe him as an innovative data hacker. Eric holds degrees from The University of Tokyo and The University of Texas at Austin.

Outside of his primary work in infrastructure engineering, Eric has a unique background that includes three years of professional experience translating Japanese to English. He also has an interest in gaming, which inspired the name for his database project, Druid, based on the shapeshifting abilities of the game class.

He was a founding team member of Tidepool, a non-profit organization focused on diabetes data.

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Experience
26 Years
Current Role
Chief Architect
Job Level
Senior
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
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Decoupling Observability
He has recently appeared on multiple podcasts discussing the move toward decoupled architectures for observability, focusing on logs, metrics, and traces.
Apache Druid
As the original creator of this open-source real-time analytical data store, he frequently discusses its origins, architecture, and applications in interviews and talks.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Chief Architect
Imply
9-2023
Chief Officer, Emerging Solutions
Imply
6-2021 - 12-2023
Field CTO
Imply
10-2017 - 6-2021
Fellow
Splunk
11-2014 - 10-2017
Distinguished Tech YahooOoO!
Yahoo
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Education
2006 - 2008
Master's
The University of Tokyo
2000 - 2005
BA
The University of Texas at Austin
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