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Ryan Nienhuis

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Senior Staff Product Manager at Databricks
📍 Seattle, Washington, United States

Ryan Nienhuis is the Senior Staff Product Manager leading Databricks streaming engine. His expertise is in real-time data, honed during his time at AWS leading product and engineering for services like Apache Flink and Kinesis. Colleagues describe him as smart and capable. He earned his BS from Virginia Tech.

Outside of his direct product work, Ryan maintains a keen interest in the broader data and technology landscape. He follows industry trends and developments from key publications and companies in the data streaming space, such as The Economist and Confluent.

He is a frequent speaker at major data conferences like Flink Forward and AWS re: Invent, and has co-authored multiple publications on stream processing and analytics.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Senior Staff Product Manager
Job Level
Middle
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Priorities

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Stream Processing
This is his core expertise, leading streaming products at Databricks and previously managing Amazon Kinesis and the Managed Service for Apache Flink at AWS.
Apache Flink
He has deep experience with Flink, having led the Amazon Managed Service for it and presented on Flink-related topics at multiple Flink Forward conferences.
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Career

Work history

7-2023
Senior Staff Product Manager
Databricks
4-2021 - 6-2023
Sr. Manager, Product and Engineering
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
9-2019 - 4-2021
Principal Product Manager - External Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
12-2014 - 8-2019
Senior Technical Product Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
8-2011 - 11-2013
Senior Consultant
Deloitte
In the press

Media appearances

Ryan Nienhuis - Data + AI Summit 2025 - Databricks. Featured in Databricks (Data + AI Summit)
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Education
2003 - 2008
BS
Virginia Tech
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