The speaker, Kaleb Patterson, is a cybersecurity engineer who has been in his field for about 15 years and has been using Cribl for around 4 years. He works for a major US government agency with approximately 10,000 employees.
The agency's primary use case for Cribl is data reduction because they were spending a significant amount of money on data ingest. By implementing Cribl, they have reduced their data ingest by about 40%.