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Meet Clint, a Swiftie who also runs one of the fastest-growing tech companies (in that order). As the Co-Founder and CEO, he’s in charge of leading the Cribl herd––and by herd, we mean the amazing folks in product and engineering, sales and marketing, and the goats in G&A, too. Clint has led the company to record-breaking growth since 2018, including triple digit YoY customer and ARR growth, becoming one of the fastest infrastructure companies to surpass the $100 million ARR milestone, securing more than $400 million in funding from the world’s top investors, and transitioning Cribl to a multi-product data company for IT and Security. With a background at companies like Splunk and Cricket Communications, Clint has the battle scars of a seasoned practitioner, bringing his personal experience to better understand customer pain points and purchasing decisions. He’s not just the CEO, he’s a passionate product leader, a relentless customer advocate, and a lover (and teller) of baaad jokes.
This is Dritan. We call him D. D is the Co-Founder and head of product, where he leads our product management, product design, and technical guidance functions as well as our in-house innovation team, Cribl Zero-to-One. He’s known for incubating our newest products–like Cribl Edge and Cribl Search–and he’s focused on envisioning, building, and scaling our products to ensure customers’ needs are met. Getting a demo from D can be transformative. He turns the ordinary into the amazing, helping customers get more value out of their data and existing tools. He’s a technical leader who previously served as a Principal Architect at Splunk, and he has designed and implemented hundreds of deployments of large-scale multi-TB distributed systems. He’s also the keeper of The Board™–signage that he kept from Cribl’s first-ever event booth, which stays by his side and is covered with mementos from his Cribl journey.
Ledion is our CTO and Co-Founder. That means he’s the top goat in our engineering org, making sure we’re constantly shipping, always innovating, and never taking ourselves too seriously. He’s been at the forefront of launching our multi-product suite and brings an unwavering commitment to solving customer problems with a first principles approach (he might ask “Why?” five times, but that’s just to better understand the crux of the matter). Ledion has the cred(ion) as he has led the development of several enterprise products, including the introduction of Search-Time Schema and the design of Hunk and SmartStore while he was the Advanced Development Architect at Splunk.
Abby is a “been there, done that, have the t-shirt to prove it” type of leader, bringing more than two decades of experience to lead our Market team. Abby builds high performing teams focused on driving brand awareness and explosive customer acquisition, including Marketing, Customer Advocacy, and Business Development. She leads with data-driven initiatives, crafting compelling narratives that resonate and propel industry disruption. She brings a strong technical background, as well as leadership experience from networking and security companies like Extreme, Aerohive, and Juniper, so she understands how to passionately market innovative tech to IT and Security, and can dive deep into our products and the larger ecosystem. She can also dive deep (literally) as an avid SCUBA diver and lover of all water activities.
Detection-focused security engineer with 5+ years experience building enterprise-scale detection pipelines, leading IR and threat intelligence operations, and advising senior leadership on defensive posture
Alex Parella is a Senior Product Manager at Cribl with a background in threat hunting, engineering, and product roles across cybersecurity. Prior to joining Cribl, he spent four years at ReliaQuest, where he built and scaled detection engineering capabilities. At Cribl, he is focused on identity and access management and the platform UI experience.
Alex is a results-driven cybersecurity leader with over twelve years experience defending enterprise & service provider environments. His operational philosophy is rooted in a “Blue Team Combined-Arms” approach, aligning people, process, and technology to defensive capabilities, in depth.
Alex Crusco is a Staff Security Engineer at Cribl, where she specializes in Threat Operations and Security Engineering. With broad expertise spanning both the strategic and technical dimensions of security, Alex brings a grounded, practitioner-focused perspective to the challenges modern security teams face. She is passionate about building resilient security programs and translating complex threats into actionable defense strategies.
Aswin has over 2 decades of experience in the IT industry and he enjoys working on open-source and cloud native services. In the last 5 years he has collaborated with a number of organizations and helped them migrate and modernize their workload in AWS
Banipal Shahbaz is an engineering leader at Cribl focused on building next-generation security and telemetry platforms. With a background spanning multiple facets of cybersecurity and large-scale data systems, he has led engineering initiatives across Cribl Stream, Edge, and Integrations, with a recent focus on modernizing security operations through stream-based detections and AI-assisted workflows.
Prior to Cribl, Banipal spent several years at Splunk working on security products and large-scale enterprise software. He holds multiple patents related to telemetry, event processing, and security operations. His current work centers on shifting detections closer to data in motion, enabling organizations to reduce SIEM dependency, improve detection speed, and prepare for the next generation of AI-driven SOC operations.
Bob is a Senior Manager in Global Cyber Defense leading the Architecture, Data Management, and Process teams. He has 14 years of experience spread across multiple domains of Cyber Security including Security Assessments, SIEM, and SOC implementations.
Bradly Shoen is a Linux System Administrator at the University of Montana, born and raised in Missoula. He started as a student technician at the UM IT help desk, moved into Windows server administration after earning his B.S. in Computer Science, and has since focused on Linux, most recently earning his RHCSA. Today he uses Cribl to control UM's log ingest into Splunk Cloud, working alongside the information security office as well as network, identity, and application teams across the university. Outside of work, he plays table tennis and chess, and builds video games.
Brett is a Consulting Engineer on the Enablement Services team at Carbon 9 Defense, a value-added reseller supporting Federal Government and State, Local, and Education (SLED) customers. He designs, implements, and maintains modern observability and security data pipelines to meet diverse customer needs. With extensive hands-on experience across multiple Cribl products, Brett specializes in helping organizations accelerate data transformations, deliver rapid ROI, and maximize the value of their observability and SIEM platforms.
Bryan Grady is based out of NETbuilder's New York City offices and leads the organization's internal Cribl center-of-excellence. He has delivered over two dozen Cribl professional services engagements for direct clients and partners, including at major multinational banks, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies. A graduate of NETbuilder's best-in-class academy program, he is also certified and accomplished in delivering services in a variety of observability and SIEM products.
Brian is an observability ninja who has over 15 years as both a customer and consultant. At Optiv, he is responsible for architecting the data pipeline used in Optiv's MDR offering. Prior to Optiv, Brian worked as a professional services consultant for both Cribl and Splunk, where he gained experience across multiple verticals and clients of all sizes.
Byron Kenan is a Senior Leader in Observability at United Wholesale Mortgage, driving event log management, telemetry strategy, and innovation of data pipeline architecture. He is passionate about maximizing the value of a cohesive data lake to reduce MTTI/R, connect interdependent system data, and streamline derived insights. With hands-on experience with modern observability platforms, Byron focuses on cross-functional collaboration, product team enablement, and making data tell a story that helps you make decisions.
Charles Hills is a Senior Product Manager at Cribl with 8 years of product management experience, where he leads Cribl Insights, alerting, and the billing and FinOps experience. His work helps teams see how they use Cribl, understand what it costs, and operate it with confidence as they scale from a single team to the whole enterprise. Charles is focused on turning scattered, complex capabilities into a single, intuitive experience, so that managing usage, cost, and governance stays simple no matter how large the deployment grows.
Chris is a managing director with Deloitte’s Cyber & Strategic Risk practice leading its Cyber AI Strategy and Transformation services portfolio. With over 20 years of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Machine Learning (ML), data science, and software engineering experience supporting both government and commercial organizations,
Chris’s areas of focus include developing and implementing AI-driven cybersecurity solutions to help extend cyber capabilities, decrease human effort and streamline cyber operations. In his role, Chris also works with clients to identify and manage emerging cybersecurity risks associated with enterprise AI adoption and develop cybersecurity strategies and technology solutions to help organizations adopt AI with trust and security.
Connor is the lead AI Research Engineer on the Cribl team and focuses on training models purpose-built for Security/Observability/Telemetry use cases. In addition to model development, Connor conducts research on the efficiency, interpretability, and domain-specific expertise of general-purpose LLMs. Before Cribl, Connor built AI/ML solutions across a wide range of industries, including Fintech, Automotive, & Gaming. Outside of work, he's an avid skier, chess player, and sailor.
Dan Marantz is a Product Management leader at Cribl focused on building next-generation search and storage solutions. He has a background of 10 years building distributed systems and enterprise tools at Pinterest, and 8 years at Microsoft running Search experiences across Bing, Windows 10 Search and Microsoft O365 search.
He holds multiple patents related to visualizing search results, query formulation, and search experience frameworks. Currently he leads the product team on Storage and Analytics products at Cribl.
David has worked in Data Analytics and Network Security since 1997. He holds a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union in New York City, where his thesis explored Artificial Neural Networks — a foundational technology behind today's LLMs.
He began his career at Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey, rising to Principal Engineer of the Lucent VPN Firewall ("the Brick") and learning from computing pioneers like Bill Cheswick and David Korn. In 2002, he moved to AT&T Labs and began his "Big Data" journey, developing analytics on IP metadata drawn from roughly 7 Tbps of backbone traffic under then-CSO Ed Amoroso. In 2009 he joined Silicon Valley startup Narus as Director of Federal Product Engineering, then Product Manager for Security Analytics, staying through its acquisition before moving to Splunk.
Across a decade at Splunk, David had three careers: Field Sales Engineer supporting RSMs, Sales Engineering manager leading a specialized Security team, and finally Product Management lead for Splunk Stream, a wire-data packet analytics product. In 2022 he joined Cribl as Director of Product Management for Cribl Search, later expanding to Lakehouse and Lakehouse Engine in the new Storage and Analytics organization.
David has consulted, written, and spoken widely on network and security topics. He holds a CISSP, coauthored an Internet Draft, and holds three patents. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two boys — an amateur chef, accomplished eater, professional percussionist, and enthusiastic dabbler on most other instruments. Despite good pitch, he cannot sing, though he will valiantly try if encouraged or inebriated.
David Falcon serves as a Principal Solutions Architect at Palo Alto Networks. Based in Houston, Texas, David brings years of deep industry expertise to his current specialization in Security Operations Center (SOC) Transformation. In this capacity, he leads strategic initiatives across diverse verticals, driving innovation and security excellence for large-scale enterprise accounts.
Before joining Palo Alto Networks, David established a robust foundation in cybersecurity through various pre- and post-sales leadership roles at prominent organizations, including Symantec, Webroot, and Bay Dynamics.
Outside of his professional pursuits, David is a devoted father who enjoys spending quality time with his eleven-year-old son. He is also deeply committed to community service, actively volunteering with impactful organizations such as Texas Children’s Hospital, Wreaths Across America, and Rebuilding Together Houston.
Dhevasenapathy R. S. “Dheva” is a Manager of Monitoring & Logging within Operations Engineering at Velera, where he leads enterprise observability, logging, and telemetry strategy across hybrid data center, AWS, Azure, and containerized environments.
With more than 14 years of experience in IT operations, application monitoring, logging, automation, and incident management, Dheva has helped transform traditional monitoring practices into a modern observability model focused on actionable signals, reduced noise, faster root-cause analysis, and measurable operational outcomes. His work spans platforms including Cribl, Splunk, Dynatrace, SolarWinds, AppDynamics, Uptrends, and ServiceNow Event Management.
At Velera, Dheva is driving key initiatives around telemetry pipeline modernization, Splunk and Cribl strategy, data routing and shaping, observability cost optimization, and tool consolidation. His focus is on helping engineering and operations teams move beyond collecting more data to collecting the right data, with the right context, delivered to the right platforms.
As a passionate technologist and operations leader, Dheva brings a practical, real-world perspective on building scalable observability programs in complex enterprise environments. He is especially focused on turning telemetry into business value, improving service reliability, and empowering teams with cleaner, smarter, and more actionable operational data.
Earl Diem is an accomplished technology leader with extensive experience in application development, managed file transfer (MFT), observability, enterprise logging, automation, and cloud technologies. Throughout his career, he has successfully led strategic initiatives that improve operational resilience, strengthen security and compliance, and modernize enterprise platforms.
Outside of his professional career, Earl enjoys hunting, fishing, financial markets, algorithmic trading, and exploring new technologies that bridge data, automation, and business strategy.
Ed Bailey is a passionate engineering advocate with more than 20 years of experience instrumenting a wide variety of applications, operating systems, and hardware for operations and security observability. He has spent his career empowering users to understand their technical environment and quickly make data-backed decisions. At the same time, he has worked with business leaders to balance economic efficiency with the right mix of technical capabilities to meet current and future requirements.
Frank McGovern is the Chief Information Security Officer at StoneX Group Inc., a Fortune 50 global financial services firm, where he leads the company’s cybersecurity strategy, operations, and roadmap. With more than 15 years of experience across architecture, engineering, and governance, Frank specializes in building resilient security programs that enable complex, highly regulated businesses to thrive securely, including through large-scale mergers and acquisitions.
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Frank began his career as an intelligence specialist supporting ISR drone missions in Iraq. He brings that mission-driven perspective into the enterprise security domain, combining operational discipline with strategic vision.
Frank is also the Founder of Blue Team Con, a Chicago-based cybersecurity conference dedicated to advancing the defensive side of security, and serves as a startup advisor with Redpoint Ventures, where he mentors early-stage founders on technology strategy, scaling, and go-to-market execution. He frequently speaks on security maturity, strategy, and the evolving role of defenders in modern enterprises.
George Navarrete is a Senior Manager of Security Data Operations within Zoom's Platform Security organization, where he leads the team responsible for the security data platform that powers detection and response across the company. His work centers on large-scale security telemetry — ingesting, routing, and governing petabytes of log data so that Zoom's SOC and detection engineers can act on the signals that matter. George currently drives Zoom's migration to a modern, centralized log-management and SIEM pipeline, and he champions data governance practices that keep security telemetry high-quality, cost-efficient, and compliant.
Glenn Block leads Stream and Edge at Cribl, where he focuses on helping customers get more value from their data through products that are powerful, practical, and easy to use. Over the course of his career, he has worked across product, platforms, integrations, and developer technologies, with a consistent focus on turning complex systems into experiences customers can adopt quickly and run at scale. He works closely with customers and engineering teams to solve real-world data challenges at scale.
Himanshu Sharma is a Senior Platform Engineer at a Global Media and Entertainment Company, working on observability, telemetry, and data pipelines at scale. He enjoys solving complex systems problems, improving reliability, and learning new technologies in the o11y, cloud and Kubernetes space.
Iman Roodbaei is a Principal Infrastructure & Data Architect at Zoom with over 22 years of experience in enterprise IT and cloud infrastructure. He specializes in large-scale SIEM architecture, AWS infrastructure, and cloud automation, and has previously held senior engineering roles at ICE_Ellie Mae, GE Digital, and Teradata. Most recently, he led a large-scale migration to Cribl Edge.
Jack Coates is a passionate and committed product management leader, responsible for driving successful products from inception to sustainable growth. He has hands-on expertise in forming product strategy, leading international engineering teams, and executing to goals. He has worked for many years to improve IT security and operational awareness, from endpoint automation to machine data correlation. He led getting data in efforts at Splunk after helping launch Enterprise Security, and he led the platform team at Tanium, increasing the value that customers can derive from real time actionability. He currently works on special projects at Cribl, where they use AI-powered telemetry to lower the cost of security and operational awareness.
Jim Keck brings a unique combination of business, technology, and risk leadership to Deloitte, following 20 years in senior executive roles at three of the four largest U.S. banks. He has led large-scale technology transformations, organization of hundreds, and investments up to $300 million.
As an early adopter of Cribl, Jim has extensive experience using the technology to solve complex enterprise challenges at scale. He brings a perspective of an executive sponsor, technology leader, architect, and a customer accountable for the investment and the outcome.
Today, Jim advises clients on many of the same decisions he spent two decades making from their side of the table, bringing firsthand experience with the challenges, tradeoffs, and lessons learned along the way.
João is a SOC Engineer at one of the largest Telcos in Portugal, where he works daily with technologies such as SIEM, CLM, and SOAR. By night, he transforms into a passionate security researcher with a particular focus on open-source projects and Kubernetes. Over the years, his research has earned him 3 CVEs and led him to present at renowned security conferences, including OWASP Porto.
John "Shimmy" Schimelpfenig is Director of Global Strategic Partnerships at Tines, where he leads technology, marketplace, and alliance partnerships. With 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, John has built strategic ecosystems at companies including Rapid7, Code42 and Mimecast. His work focuses on turning partnerships into meaningful business outcomes across AI, security, and enterprise workflows. Shimmy brings a practical perspective on building partnerships that create lasting value.
Justin Brown is a Senior IT Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he has spent the past 26 years of his career -- the last 14 of which have been focused at the intersection of infrastructure and data. Justin is on the Operational Analytics (Optics) team as the technical lead for Splunk and Cribl, architecting the collection, transformation, and routing of machine data across PNNL's expansive campus and remote offices. This work powers cybersecurity operations, IT monitoring and troubleshooting, automation workflows, reports and dashboards — translating raw operational data into actionable intelligence for research, cyber, and IT teams alike.
Karan Haribhakti is a Staff Product Manager at Cribl, leading multiple products and platform initiatives across the Cribl ecosystem. His scope spans Cribl as Code—including APIs, SDKs, and Terraform—Identity & Access Management, and core platform capabilities that enable Cribl to scale for large enterprise customers. He focuses on building secure, extensible platform foundations that improve how customers automate, manage, and operate Cribl at scale.
Kishore Korathaluri is a Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer and leads Terraform Provider development at Cribl. A developer-turned-SRE, his work spans platform reliability, infrastructure lead for 021 products such as Cribl Insights, and enabling infrastructure automation through the “Cribl as Code” initiative.
With a background that bridges software engineering and cloud infrastructure, Kishore focuses on building reliable platforms and tools that help customers and engineering teams move from manual configuration to automated, repeatable, and auditable infrastructure. His work helps reduce configuration drift, simplify cloud operations, and make it easier to scale observability across modern environments.
Kristen Emmanuel is an Observability Administrator at United Wholesale Mortgage, focusing on the enrichment, delivery, and visualization of insightful telemetry data to drive innovation and efficiency in the mortgage industry. Kristen is passionate about data management and helping people where they struggle the most, shaping telemetry to maximize the value of performance investments. Through the use of Cribl and Dynatrace, she is dedicated to improving data quality across multiple platforms, reducing operational complexity, and enabling scalable monitoring solutions across critical business tiers.
Kyle McCullough is a Principal Software Engineer on Cribl’s C021 Cloud Collection team. He brings a practitioner's perspective to cloud telemetry design, with an emphasis on correlation, enrichment, attribution, and building systems that help operators understand both bredth and depth in large-scale cloud environments.
Kyle Obear is a Senior Technical Engineer at enGen with nearly 30 years of IT experience. Throughout his career, Kyle has built and supported various ITSM/ITIL platforms and enterprise monitoring and observability systems. In his current role, he leverages this diverse background to help drive system reliability and optimize modern data pipelines in the healthtech space.
Lindbergh Caldeira is the Cyber Security Operations Manager at South Australia Power Networks, the state's sole electricity distributor delivering power to around 900,000 homes and businesses.
He has been in the cybersecurity industry for the past 19+ years and has worked across roles in consulting, education, and critical infrastructure.
At SA Power Networks, Lindbergh and his SOC team have built the first hybrid threat-led capability to protect the organisation against cyberattacks to ensure safe and reliable energy services continue to be provided to the community.
Luan Tran is a Senior Product Security Engineer on Zoom's Platform Security team, where he helps secure the products and data pipelines that power one of the world's most widely used communications platforms. His work spans product security engineering, security data operations, and the modernization of Zoom's logging and SIEM infrastructure — including the ongoing migration of security data pipelines to Cribl. Luan partners closely with detection response, infrastructure, and governance stakeholders to ensure security telemetry is reliable, well-governed, and actionable.
Miguel is a SOC Engineer at one of the largest Telcos in Portugal. With a background in Linux system administration, cloud engineering, and containerized application environments, he brings a solid, hands-on understanding of infrastructure and networking to his security work. Today, he focuses on log management, building integrations, and onboarding new tools to enhance SOC operations, sitting right at the crossroads of DevSecOps and security engineering.
Nate Wood is a Senior Security Engineer with expertise in security operations, detection engineering, and enterprise data pipelines. Over the past year, he has rebuilt a collection and observability layer around Cribl — deploying Edge across tens of thousands of endpoints across diverse device types, using Stream to shape and route data at scale, and actively integrating Search and Lake into detection and response workflows. The results speak for themselves: 8 TB/day down to 3 TB into the SIEM, 96.6% fewer events at the edge, and a collection architecture that's fully decoupled from any single SIEM vendor.
With over a decade in security operations across MSSP, financial services, and healthcare environments, Nate brings deep experience in SIEM engineering, SOAR automation, and detection engineering. He's a GIAC Certified Incident Handler, holds an MS in Cybersecurity from UNO, and co-organizes Kernelcon, Omaha's community security conference.
Nick Romito is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and Architect at Cribl, where he leads platform architecture strategy across Stream and Edge. Over seven years at Cribl, he has worked on the core systems that power the platform's scale and reliability, and now focuses on its next chapter: the App Platform, an extensibility model designed for the AI era.
Nicole Beckwith is a cybersecurity leader with over 15 years of experience across law enforcement, government, and private industry. She serves as Senior Director of Security Engineering & Operations at Cribl, where she focuses on scaling the company’s security operations and detection response capabilities. Previously, she led Enterprise Security Operations at Kroger, overseeing cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, insider risk, and digital forensics. Beckwith began her career in public service as a state police officer and sworn U.S. Marshal working as a Task Force Officer for the Secret Service on cyber crimes.
Nikhil is based in San Francisco, building distributed systems and AI teams at SaaS companies for over 20 years. His background spans AI, observability platforms, developer ecosystems, and high-scale consumer social products, with leadership roles at Substack, Splunk, ThoughtWorks, and most recently, Cribl where he currently serves as the Head of AI Research & Development.
Pardhu Gunnam is an engineering leader with over 15 years of experience building data platforms, developer tools, and AI-powered products. He is currently Head of Engineering for Data Insights at Cribl, where he leads teams building large-scale analytics and observability solutions. Previously, he co-founded Metaphor Data, which was acquired by Cribl. His expertise spans engineering leadership, distributed systems, data infrastructure, observability, AI/LLM platforms, and product development from early-stage startups to enterprise scale.
Father of GoatSearch, Packer of Pipelines, Tagger of Telemetry, and Wearer of Chain. First of his name.
Phil Redfern is the Director of Security Engineering at the University of Nebraska, where he leads security efforts spanning architecture, identity, network, platform, and application domains across a multi-campus university system. With over 18 years in higher education IT, he has built risk-based cybersecurity programs that keep pace with academic, research, and business demands – without slowing them down. Phil is recognized for his leadership in organizational change management and for integrating cybersecurity strategy into complex, mission-driven environments. He is also an active participant in the Big Ten Academic Alliance and in peer user communities across higher education.
Randy Corelli is a Staff Customer Success Engineer at Cribl who works closely with customers to solve complex data ingestion, routing, and integration challenges. He is especially strong with REST-based integrations and brings a practical, hands-on approach to helping teams optimize their environments, improve visibility, and get more value from their data.
Randy is passionate about enablement and helping organizations think beyond traditional SIEM-first architectures. He focuses on building flexible data strategies that control costs, route the right data to the right places, and connect technical decisions back to real business outcomes.
Rick Salsa has spent his career at the intersection of data, security, and scale. As Senior Staff Product Manager at Cribl, he works on the products that help organizations tame the growing chaos of telemetry, turning overwhelming volumes of logs, metrics, and events into something teams can actually search, understand, and act on. He's a frequent commentator on where observability and security operations are heading, from AI-native search to the economics of the data plane.
Before Cribl, Rick spent years across Aspen Mesh and F5 working on application delivery and security, Kubernetes, service mesh, and observability technologies, and was a leading product manager helping build F5 Cloud. Earlier, at Astaro (acquired by Sophos), he focused on network security. That range has given him an unusually deep and broad knowledge base, and it is exactly what lets him connect the dots between infrastructure, security, and data in ways most specialists cannot.
Roman is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience building data-intensive systems across research, AI startups, and observability infrastructure. At Cribl, he helped lead the System Insights team and now leads the development of a new metrics store designed for high-volume, high-cardinality workloads. His work focuses on scalable data processing architecture, metric ingestion and storage, and query execution systems that power modern observability platforms.
Sasikanth Vadlamudi is a product leader with more than 20 years of experience building the observability, telemetry, and digital-operations platforms that keep large-scale software reliable. Currently a Staff Product Manager focused on search and AI-assisted investigation at Cribl, he has led products across enterprise observability pipelines (Mezmo), endpoint digital-experience monitoring at global scale (Palo Alto Networks / Prisma SASE), and full-stack observability and AIOps for Fortune 500 e-commerce. His work spans real-user monitoring, alert correlation and noise reduction, incident response, and telemetry cost optimization.
Scott is the Lead Security Data Engineer at ServiceNow, where he leads efforts on the Security Data Platform Engineering team. With a focus on data onboarding and security operations, Scott specializes in bringing data in and sending it where it is needed to support mission-critical priorities across the organization. His responsibilities span the management of Splunk and the rollout of additional cloud platforms, as well as supporting detection engineering, incident response, and monitoring functions associated with enterprise logs and security events.
Seyi Adebajo is a Staff Software Engineer in C021, Cribl's incubator org, where he builds applications and systems that surface actionable insights from data. He previously built data applications at LinkedIn and Meta, and cofounded Metaphor Data. His recent focus has been making large language models and agents observable, efficient, and safe to operate, turning opaque model interactions into signals teams can act on.
Shane Daniels is a Sr. Director of Solutions Engineering and brings many years of telemetry and technical leadership to Cribl, helping Customers unlock the true power of their security data without compromising on flexibility. Drawing from his extensive background in telemetry data, he guides organizations through complex data engineering challenges, from scaling distributed architectures to post-acquisition data routing.
Stuart Bowell is Global Head of Observability, Security and Telemetry Engineering at NETbuilder, where he leads the global engineering practice behind the company's observability and security work. A qualified Cribl consultant, his work centers on telemetry pipeline design, data quality, and large-scale data migration across enterprise estates. He partners with organizations to get their data foundations right, because everything downstream, including anything agentic, depends on them.
Vivek Gurikar is a Staff Platform Engineer at a Global Media and Entertainment Company for over 10 years, with focus on Observability. He is responsible for building o11y solutions that not just Observe but resolve Platform issues, while building new avenues for growth for the platform.
