Tobias Sutor
Principal Support Engineer at Elastic
Greater Nuremberg Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Sutor is a Principal Support Engineer at Elastic with over six years of hands-on experience delivering 1st–3rd level technical support for mission-critical on-premise and cloud deployments. He blends deep troubleshooting expertise from roles at VMware and Elastic with mentoring, enablement, and knowledge advocacy to keep complex systems reliable under pressure. Tobias has a practical engineering background from Elektronikschule Tettnang and a track record of evolving from escalation engineering to program-level support leadership. Known as an "old-school techie," he emphasizes pragmatic solutions and clear customer communication—plus a quirky preference for cheesecake-prefaced messages that hints at his personable approach. Based in the Greater Nuremberg area, he excels at translating low-level diagnostics into operational improvements for enterprise customers.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
State Certified Engineering Technician for Information Technology, Information Technology, Further education to staatlich geprüfter Techniker / Bachelor, State Certified Engineering Technician for Information Technology, Information Technology, Further education to staatlich geprüfter Techniker / Bachelor at Elektronikschule Tettnang
German, English
Github Skills (47)
search-engine10
opensearch10
metricbeat10
observability10
transport10
heartbeat10
filebeat10
java10
kibana10
packetbeat10
restful10
logstash10
etl-framework10
elasticsearch10
logging10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
toby-sutor/logstash-filter-elapsed
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
elastic/kibana
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 5 months
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
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