Leigh Klotz

Production Engineering Architect @Yahoo

Instituted: Kubernetes, OpenStack, Splunk, Synthetic Testing, KPIs/SLO/Error Budgets, AI/ML PE Applications, Mailbox Analytics, Observability Strategy, Engineering Conference Chair Recent Accomplishments- Developed Observability and Logging/Metrics strategy for Yahoo Mail Production Engineering, later used as basis for corporate strategy - Led large-scale PoC analysis of multiple Observability vendors - Analyzed and reduced multi-petabyte Splunk log/query usage with LLM / ML / Embeddings - Developed Throg/Fog SoT system for billion-scale mailbox stabillity analytics - Defined and deployed KPIs for Availability - Tech Pulse senior program committe, chair of PE-Con, both corp-wide engineering conferences Technologies: Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Observability, New Relic, Cribl, Open Telemetry, Spark, Scala, Jupyter, OpenAI API, Scala, LLM, LLama2, Python