Senior Principal Cloud Architect · Adobe
Dan Neff
With over 20 years in cloud architecture, I help organizations build infrastructure that scales, from early social media pioneers like Facebook and Friendster to Adobe, where I currently serve as a Senior Principal Cloud Architect.
Recent writing
Notes from the frontier
What I Learned Writing an MCP Server
What an infrastructure engineer learns writing his first MCP server, and why the real friction turns out to be credentials.
Building Personal AI Infrastructure
What it actually takes to make an AI assistant that answers your phone, polices your kanban, drafts your week, and costs almost nothing to run.
What I Took to the Enterprise AI Summit
Bringing Big-T Notation to Gene Kim's Enterprise AI Summit, and what I picked up while I was there.
Experience
Two decades of scale
Adobe
2009 – Present- Senior Principal Cloud Architect2024 – Present
- Principal Architect2018 – 2024
- Operations Architect2015 – 2018
- Senior Release/Operations Lead2009 – 2014
Zazzle
Build/Release Engineer
2005 – 2009
System Administrator
2005
Friendster
Build/Release Engineer, System Administrator
2003 – 2005
DemandTec Incorporated
Build/Release Manager, Lab Administrator
2001 – 2003