Michael Sickles
Senior Customer Architect at honeycomb.io
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Sickles is a Senior Customer Architect based in Ann Arbor with 11 years of hands-on software and customer-facing experience, now evangelizing observability and OpenTelemetry best practices at Honeycomb. A former software engineer who still dives deep into technical detail, he uniquely bridges low-level implementation knowledge (his favorite language is Rust) with enterprise-facing solution design and presales leadership. He has progressed through roles from individual contributor to team lead and staff architect, shaping GTM and adoption practices at scale. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed-system telemetry into actionable insights and pragmatic instrumentation strategies. Outside client work, he brings an engineer’s curiosity to tooling and performance tuning, often tackling the same problems he advises others on.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (55)
javascript10
parser10
instrumentation10
api10
opentelemetry10
telemetry10
otel10
javascript-client9
observability9
router9
monitoring9
sampling9
distributed-tracing9
pipeline9
vector9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
McSick/honeycomb-derived-column-language-extension
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 1 month
McSick/confluent-otel-example
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Consumers + Producer example
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 6 months
producerconsumers
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