Summary
Justin Hamblin is a Principal Sales Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience helping Fortune 500 and highly regulated enterprises turn observability, cloud, and data-security investments into measurable cost savings and reduced risk. He progressed from Splunk architect roles at Panera Bread to senior sales engineering positions at Splunk and Cribl—where he earned President’s Club honors—and now applies that blend of deep technical fluency and business acumen at SentinelOne. Justin specializes in ingest optimization, data governance, and compliance across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, regularly translating complex technical capabilities into C-suite level outcomes. He’s mentored peers, driven regional ARR growth, and has a practical background in big data tooling (Splunk, ELK, Hadoop, Kafka) that informs prescriptive value paths for customers. Outside the boardroom he’s an avid photographer and outdoors explorer, a detail that often shows up in his thoughtful, customer-focused storytelling.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Lewis and Clark Community College
Certificate IT - Information Technology, Certificate IT - Information Technology at Ranken Technical College