Mike Johnson
Principal Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Johnson is a Principal Solutions Engineer based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area with 7 years in cloud-native observability and a two-decade career in sales engineering and enablement across monitoring and APM platforms. He currently helps shape Grafana Labs’ commercial adoption of open-source observability, having progressed from Solutions Engineer to principal while earlier supporting Wavefront/Tanzu and SignalFx customers through acquisitions and platform transitions. Mike blends technical systems engineering with strategic sales leadership, guiding complex enterprise migrations to cloud-native monitoring and translating telemetry into business outcomes. His background includes director-level sales engineering at ScienceLogic and hands-on EUEM and network performance experience from Coradiant and NetQoS, giving him a rare end-to-end view of observability stacks. Known for navigating product transitions during acquisitions, he excels at aligning engineering, product, and customer success to reduce time-to-value for observability deployments.
7 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at The George Washington University - School of Engineering & Applied ScienceMBA Sales and Marketing, MBA Sales and Marketing at The George Washington University School of Business
Github Skills (22)
grafana-plugin8
datasource6
agent5
monitoring4
grafana4
csv4
xml4
prometheus3
opentelemetry3
telemetry3
json3
terraform-provider3
terraform3
opentelemetry-collector2
observability2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/extreme-dashboard-makeover-breakouts
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 review, 74 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
mikempx/SLO-Workshop-Breakouts
Oct 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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