Jim Walsh

SVP Engineering | InfluxData

Jim is a transformative and entrepreneurial engineering executive. For more than 30 years, he has developed innovative software solutions and built world-class engineering teams for large technology companies and startups alike, focusing on growth, profitability and competitiveness. Before InfluxData, he was SVP of Infrastructure Engineering at Salesforce and previously served in leadership roles at Microsoft and Versive. Jim holds 30 patents in areas spanning his deep technical expertise in machine learning, storage, security and large-scale distributed systems. He has a degree in computer science from the University of Alberta.

Talk Title: Lessons Learned: Running InfluxDB Cloud and Other Cloud Services at Scale 

In this session, Jim Walsh, our SVP Engineering and Nathan Haugo, Director of Engineering will cover principles, learnings, and practical advice from operating multiple cloud services at scale, including of course our InfluxDB Cloud service. What do we monitor, what do we alert on, and how did we architect it all? What are our underlying architectural and operational principles?