Woody Walton
Senior Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic
Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarWoody Walton is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect at Elastic with 11 years in enterprise solutions and a long history of guiding federal and public sector technology programs. He blends deep search and analytics expertise—shaped by years leading Autonomy/IDOL initiatives and integrating enterprise search at scale—with hands-on presales leadership and architecture design. Woody has repeatedly built and managed federal pre-sales teams, drove product enhancements with engineers and PMs, and turned complex RFPs and proofs-of-concept into revenue-generating engagements. His background includes early large-scale search work for the Army Knowledge Online portal and a decade of enlisted Army service, giving him uncommon operational discipline and an ability to translate mission needs into technical solutions. Based in Fredericksburg, VA, he brings a mix of technical depth, customer-facing communication, and program-level influence that helps bridge engineering, sales, and public-sector stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (38)
search-engine10
opensearch10
observability10
transport10
kibana10
java10
restful10
logstash10
etl-framework10
elasticsearch10
logging10
elastic10
visualizations10
jruby10
streaming10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
woodywalton/elasticsearch
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:1 push, 4 branches in 2 days
xarmy/kibana_canvas_examples
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
A selection of Canvas workpad examples
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
canvasselection
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