Large enterprise · sole technical leadProduction
Competitive observability win
A large enterprise evaluated OpenObserve against a leading observability vendor. I was the sole technical lead and took it from discovery to production in two months.
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Problem
A large enterprise ran a head-to-head evaluation against a leading observability vendor. The bar was a full set of success criteria across ingestion, query performance, migration effort, and operational cost, all to be met before any production commitment.
My role
Sole technical lead across the entire engagement. I ran discovery and technical scoping, designed and tuned the cluster end to end, built the migration tooling, delivered the Terraform IaC, and did the capacity planning.
What shipped
- +End-to-end cluster design and tuning sized to the workload
- +End-to-end migration tooling to move existing telemetry and dashboards
- +Terraform-based infrastructure as code for repeatable rollout
- +Capacity plan mapped to ingestion and query targets
Outcome
- →Met every success criterion
- →Reached production in two months from POC kickoff
- →Delivered as reproducible infrastructure as code, not a one-off cluster