I'm SVP of Product and Design at Spacelift, an infrastructure-as-code orchestration company, in Pompano Beach, FL. I own product direction across Deploy, Flows, and Spacelift Intelligence.
Before Spacelift I was at Paessler, Aiven, and Kentik, and I was CTO at Logz.io. At AppDynamics I worked through the S-1, the IPO, and the Cisco acquisition. At Gartner I led the APM Magic Quadrant, created the NPMD Magic Quadrant, and coined the term "Network Pac 8349 ket Broker."
I maintain Jaeger. I was on the founding team of OpenSearch and sit on its technical steering committee. I have run product, design, and engineering teams of 100+ people, and I still do technical work.
I scuba dive reefs and wrecks and take underwater photos. The code for that is in underwater-photo-processing, Barefoot-Dive (dive planning), and Barefoot-Blender (gas blending).
At Spacelift I work on how teams run OpenTofu, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, and Kubernetes at scale: orchestration, policy, drift, and observability for IaC runs. At AWS re:Invent this year I'm talking about tracing tofu apply.
Jaeger - CNCF Distributed Tracing Platform
| Open source, end-to-end distributed tracing platform
Maintainer; I review PRs and help shape the roadmap and releases.
| Open source distributed search and analytics engine
Member of the technical steering committee and part of the founding team.
OpenTelemetry Collector - CNCF Observability Framework
| Vendor-neutral observability framework
Community participant and contributor since the early days.
| Web interface for Jaeger distributed tracing
Maintainer on the Jaeger web UI.
| Category | Technologies |
|---|---|
| 🏗️ Infrastructure as Code | OpenTofu, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, CloudFormation |
| 💻 Languages | Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python |
| ☁️ Platforms | Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud |
| 🔭 Observability | Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos |
| 🔍 Search | OpenSearch, Elasticsearch |
| 🗄️ Databases | PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Redis |
| 🛠️ Tools | Git, CI/CD, Helm |
I'm always interested in discussing:
- 🏗️ Infrastructure as code and platform engineering
- 💡 Observability and monitoring strategies
- 🌐 Open source collaboration opportunities
- 🚀 Cloud-native architectures
- 📈 Technology leadership and team building
Feel free to reach out via X, LinkedIn, or email!