Short Bio:
Leon Adato is a Developer Relations Advocate / Technical Evangelist / whatever you want to call it, and has held multiple industry certifications over his 36 years in IT including Cisco, Microsoft, A+, and more. His experience spans financial, healthcare, food and beverage, and other industries.
He’s been creating written, video, and audio content about monitoring and observability for over a decade. His IT career began in 1989 and has led him through roles in classroom training, desktop support, sysadmin, and network engineering.
Long Bio
In his sordid career, Leon Adato has worked as an actor, bug exterminator, wild-animal remover,
electrician, carpenter, stage-combat instructor, American Sign Language interpreter, and Sunday school
teacher.
Oh, and he works with computers, starting back in 1989 (when you could get a free copy of Windows 286 on twelve 5¼” floppies when you bought a copy of Excel 1.0). In IT, he’s had jobs as a classroom instructor, course ware designer, desktop support tech, sysadmin, and network engineer.
Then, about 25 years ago, he got involved with monitoring, working with a wide range of tools: Tivoli,
Nagios, Patrol, ZenOss, janky perl scripts, OpenView, SiteScope, SolarWinds, Grafana, Zabbix, New Relic, and (of course) Kentik. In the course of that work, he’s designed solutions for companies that ranged in size from modest (~10 systems); to significant (1,000 – 5,000 systems); to ludicrous (250,000 systems in 5,000 locations).