Iain Finlayson
Solutions Architect at bitdrift
City of Hudson, New York, United States
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Top SchoolIain Finlayson is a solutions architect based in Hudson, New York, with a decade-plus career blending technical pre-sales, engineering management, and content architecture across enterprise software firms. He has progressed from hands-on roles in web and publishing technology to leadership positions at DataStax, Wrike, Grafana Labs, and now bitdrift, demonstrating strength in translating complex technical requirements into customer-facing solutions. Comfortable at the intersection of product, sales, and engineering, he has repeatedly scaled presales teams and steered technical strategy for cloud and observability platforms. His background in biological sciences and publishing gives him a rare combination of scientific rigour and clarity in technical communication. Known for moving between hands-on solution design and people leadership, he brings practical experience in enterprise SaaS, cloud migrations, and partner enablement. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who thrives on untangling complexity to deliver measurable business outcomes.
2 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Biological Sciences Immunology (Hons), BSc Biological Sciences Immunology (Hons) at The University of EdinburghStandard MEDDIC, Standard MEDDIC at MEDDIC AcademyMaster's degree Publishing, Master's degree Publishing at Edinburgh Napier University
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Github Skills (25)
monitoring10
mysql9
dashboard9
visualization9
analytics9
visualize9
grafana9
prometheus9
data-visualization9
elasticsearch9
influxdb8
go8
composable8
business-intelligence8
observability8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
iainfinlayson/pov-sim
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 15 days
grafana/grafana
Jul 2023 - Jul 2023
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
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