Summary
Mike Maxwell is an enterprise sales engineer with 11 years of experience translating complex cloud-native and observability technologies into business value, now helping customers at Datadog. He has a strong presales and solutions architecture background across cloud strategy, storage and networking from roles at Sysdig, BlueCat, F5, VMware and Hitachi, and deep hands-on data center experience dating back to Longaberger. Comfortable bridging technical and executive audiences, he specializes in AI-powered observability and cloud migrations while rooting recommendations in operational realities like SAN/NAS and DR. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Mike combines practitioner credibility with sales enablement acumen and a proven track record of guiding large enterprise deals through technical adoption. An entrepreneur at heart, he previously ran a small business and has delivered consulting engagements for Fortune-level clients, giving him pragmatic insight into customer constraints and decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree Economics, Associates Degree Economics at The Ohio State University