Speaker

Steve Flanders

Steve Flanders is Director of Engineering at Splunk responsible for Observability "Getting Data In", which includes contributions to the CNCF OpenTelemetry open-source project. Previously, he was the Head of Product and Experience at Omnition, which was acquired by Splunk. Prior to Omnition, he was the Global Engineering Manager for log analytics and data collection at VMware. Steve has an extensive background in software development, user experience, product design, and operational management. He has a strong focus on product usability, data-driven decision making, and agile development processes. He is also the author of SFlanders.net, a technology-centric weblog.