Day1 @ Elastic

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Written by Israel Ogbole on


As I sit here reflecting on the past five years, I can’t help but feel a mix of emotions. On the one hand, I am filled with gratitude for the opportunities and experiences that I had at AppDynamics. On the other hand, I am excited for the new challenges and adventures that await me at Elastic.

I joined AppDynamics in 2017 from Microsoft. Little did I know at the time, the company would become a second home to me, and the people I worked with would become like family.

During my time at AppDynamics, I was fortunate enough to work on some truly groundbreaking projects. I was lucky enough to pioneer the work on auto-instrumenting Windows container workloads on Kubernetes ,and I saw first-hand the impact it had on our customers and the sweet $3.5M in ARR for that fiscal year. I also had the chance to co-create the widely adopted AppDynamics ConfigMyApp tool - a Monitoring as code tool that let customers perform CRUD operations as code from their CI/CD pipeline - on dashboards, health rules, business transactions configurations, etc. Wow, the joy of seeing my code run in production was epic. It didn’t stop there, I led the intiative to create the first AppDynamics Ansible Collection that manages all agent installation and configurations as code.

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Then I changed roles from a hands-on Solutions Architect to an Engineering Product Manager.

As a Product Manager, I brought my years of experience and customer empathy that I have developed from the field to the table as I helped build AppDynamics Cloud from scratch. I used my expertise to understand the needs of our customers and build a product that met those needs and exceeded their expectations. I was the Product Manager for Cloud Monitoring (AWS, Azure & GCP integration and correlation with K8s services), I also Product Managed Tagging and filtering, I blogged about it here when it GA’ed. I’m proud of the work that I did to help take AppDynamics Cloud from zero to GA.

But as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. And after five amazing years, I have decided to move on to the next chapter of my career. I am excited to let you all know that I will be joining Elastic as a Principal Product Manager.

For those who may not be familiar, Elastic is a leading provider of open-source search, analytics and observability solutions. The company’s technology is used by some of the world’s biggest brands to power their applications and make data more accessible and actionable.

I will be working on integrating prodfiler.com - a whole-system, continuous profiling solution that is powered by eBPF, into the Elastic Observability suite, as well as find a product market fit for it.

As I begin this new journey, I am filled with excitement and anticipation. I am looking forward to working with the talented team at Elastic and contributing to the development of their cutting-edge technology. I am also eager to learn from my new colleagues and continue to grow.

In closing, I want to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone at AppDynamics who helped me along the way. I will always cherish the memories and lessons that I gained during my time there. And to my new friends and colleagues at Elastic, I can’t wait to see what the future holds for us. Here’s to the next chapter!


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Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.

Israel
About Israel GirlDad, Engineering Product Manager, Solutions Architect, Software Consultant, MBA candidate, and now an occasional blogger

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