Summary
Mike Guthrie is a Head of DevOps Engineering with 12 years of experience building observability, automation, and reliability across large-scale systems from startups to enterprise teams. Currently leading DevOps at NetFoundry, he architects data-driven visibility and automation platforms that transform monitoring into actionable intelligence. Previously at Red Ventures he rebuilt monitoring end-to-end—integrating Nagios, Graphite, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Datadog—and has deep practical expertise in configuration management with Salt and Puppet. Mike combines hands-on engineering and release leadership dating back to lead development at Nagios Enterprises with a pragmatic focus on deployments, networking, and container orchestration. Based in Charlotte, NC, he’s driven by a simple philosophy—leverage technology to solve problems—and often surfaces reliability gains by treating monitoring as a first-class engineering product.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Biblical/Theological Studies, Biblical/Theological Studies at Bethel University
Web Programming, Web Programming at Hennepin Technical College