Dan Neff

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Dan Neff

Senior Principal Cloud Architect · Adobe · verified 2026-09-04

Dan Neff is a Senior Principal Cloud Architect at Adobe, with over twenty years of experience building infrastructure at scale, from early social platforms like Facebook and Friendster to Adobe’s enterprise cloud footprint today. He led Adobe’s generative AI operational onboarding and now works at the frontier of cloud architecture and AI, spanning agent governance, LLM cost attribution, and enterprise model deployment. He writes about cloud infrastructure, LLM systems, and personal AI at neff.cc.

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1 in the library2 talksPublishing since 2026

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2026

Guidance paperRaising Seniors

with Kent Beck, Jondavid Black & 4 others

2026

TalkBig‑T Notation: Engineering for Token Efficiency in the Age of Enterprise AI

AI Summit Spring 2026 · 18 min

2024

RoleSenior Principal Cloud Architect

Adobe · 2024

2018

RolePrincipal Architect

Adobe · 2018 – 2024