Rich Upshall
Principal Sales Engineer - EMEA at Datadog
Cotswold District, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRich Upshall is a Principal Sales Engineer with 11+ years of hands-on IT and customer-facing experience, currently leading technical sales across EMEA at Datadog. He pairs deep cloud and DevOps roots—from building AWS hosting, CI/CD and monitoring platforms—to consistently driving enterprise wins using MEDDICC, COM and Demo2Win methodologies. A former engineering leader who has built regional SE teams and supported Europe’s largest TCO deals, he combines technical authority with strong client rapport and a ~90% lifetime tech win track record at Datadog. Based in the Cotswolds, he moves comfortably between architecture, democraft and customer success, and is known for delivering high-quality work the first time. An uncommon strength is his career-long arc from hands-on embedded and development roles to strategic sales engineering, giving him credibility with both engineers and executives.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science & Engineering, BSc Computer Science & Engineering at University of SurreyPates Grammar School
English
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Github Skills (23)
hugo10
datadog10
documentation10
html6
internet-explorer6
aws-cloudformation6
amazon-ec26
angularjs6
amazon-web-services6
django6
javascript6
couchbase6
amazon-echo4
tcp4
python4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
richupshall/awsmapper
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
richupshall/datadog-custom-checks
Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year 2 months
golangdatadog-agentagentdomaindatadog
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