John O'brien
Principal Solutions Engineer at Rocky Mountain Watches
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn O'brien is a Principal Solutions Engineer with 11 years of experience helping organizations turn observability and cloud-native tooling into measurable business value. Based in Colorado Springs, he progressed through hands-on engineering roles into customer-facing technical leadership at Grafana Labs after senior sales engineering positions at AppDynamics and Bottle Rocket. He combines deep infrastructure and DevOps experience—managing AWS/GCP environments and build pipelines—with a knack for translating technical complexity into commercial outcomes. An entrepreneur at heart, John also runs two niche businesses, Rocky Mountain Watches and The Lug Nut Source, demonstrating product instincts and a track record of growing revenue from zero. Colleagues describe him as someone who blends people-first collaboration with creative technical problem solving, often spotting practical efficiencies others miss.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Liberty University
Github Skills (17)
alphabet6
storage5
monitoring4
prometheus-exporter4
prometheus4
opentelemetry4
multi-tenant4
scalable4
strava3
datasource3
observability3
emoji3
echo3
grafana3
slack2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JohnHeywardOBrien/DC
Mar 2015 - May 2037
Contributions:121 commits, 110 pushes in 22 years 6 months
JohnHeywardOBrien/to_do
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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