Chad Tindel is Senior Principal GenAI/Search Solution Architect at Elastic. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo) as well as an MBA and MS Finance from the University of Denver. After 12 years of writing code professionally, Chad discovered that he really loved working with customers; he now lives in NYC where he has supported all of the major Financial Institutions as a Solution Architect at companies such as Red Hat, Cloudera, MongoDB, Prevoty, Elastic, AWS, ngrok, and Weaviate. He is also the host of the successful tech sales podcast “Can I get that software in blue?” and is a frequent speaker at events and conferences.
Steve Mayzak is Vice President, Global Solution Engineering at Grafana Labs. He is a builder of pre-sales teams having previously built the Solution Architect team at Elastic, Inc. from the ground up until post-IPO and is now working on doing the same thing at Grafana Labs.