Konstantin Boudnik
Principal AI/Data Architect
Dr. Konstantin Boudnik is an architect and technology executive with more than 30 years of experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and 17 US patents in distributed computing.
Author of the foundational framework used by all commercial distributions of Apache Hadoop and co-founder of Apache Bigtop, he serves as Vice President at the Apache Software Foundation, where he mentored projects including Apache Ignite, Apache Groovy, and Apache Zeppelin, and co-authored the book “Professional Hadoop.” He served on the advisory boards of GridGain and several Silicon Valley startups.
His career includes technical leadership at Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, and EPAM Systems, and executive roles at WANdisco, where he led enterprise cloud data migration at scale. As founder and CEO of C-Systems, Inc., he focuses on agentic AI and LLM integration for enterprise clients. He currently serves as Principal AI/Data Architect at Grid Dynamics.