Steve Flanders is a Senior Director of Engineering at Splunk responsible for the Observability Platform group, which includes contributions to the CNCF OpenTelemetry open-source project. Previously, he was the Head of Product and Experience at Omnition, which Splunk acquired. Prior to Omnition, he was the Global Engineering Manager for log analytics and data collection at VMware. Steve has an extensive background in software development, user experience, product design, and operational management. He strongly focuses on product usability, data-driven decision-making, and agile development processes. He is also the author of SFlanders.net, a technology-centric weblog.