Ryan Faircloth
Leading Field Innovation Distinguished Engineer & Head Of Field Engineering
Orlando, Florida, United States
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SeniorRyan Faircloth is a strategic technical leader and distinguished engineer who specializes in modernizing machine data pipelines, observability, and secure telemetry at enterprise scale. With 20+ years of hands-on experience across security, logging, and cloud-native architectures, he has driven deployment cycle reductions of over 60% and helped customers manage logging growth into multiple petabytes per day while cutting cost per TB dramatically. He partners with C-level stakeholders and product teams to translate field insights into product direction, holds patents from his time leading integrations at Splunk, and now heads field engineering focused on outcome-driven design. Ryan combines deep security and SIEM expertise with practical automation and open schema advocacy (CIM/ECS/OpenTelemetry) to eliminate bespoke integrations and unlock business value. Based in Orlando, he’s both an executive advisor and a practitioner who mentors top-tier teams and converts complex telemetry fragmentation into repeatable, vendor-neutral solutions.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (200)
syslog10
python10
code-generation10
certbot10
aws-s310
ansible-role10
operator10
mib10
letsencrypt10
splunk10
devtools10
ansible10
pysnmp10
csi10
cli10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
splunk/seckit_sa_geolocation
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:102 releases, 1 review, 374 commits in 1 year 11 months
ryanfaircloth/s3proxy
Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
Access other storage backends via the S3 API
Contributions:3 PRs, 62 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
apibackendsstorage-backendsaws-s3storage
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