Alex is a former customer turned Splunker. He started his career with the Department of Energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Splunk analyst. In February of 2015 Alex joined Splunk. He started by fighting fires in IT, where he was the product owner for the internal deployment of Splunk. Later he transitioned into Product Management focusing on integrations. Today he works on add-ons and connectors for cloud providers and dev ops services. He grew up in central Indiana, and now lives in Hayward CA with his wife where they do college and young adult ministry with their church. In his free time he enjoys roasting/brewing/drinking coffee, hiking, reading, gaming, and lots of movies. You can find Alex here on LinkedIn.