Cory Minton joined Splunk in 2019 as a Solution Strategist focused on
ITOps and was later promoted to Director of the Observability Strategist
team in the Americas. While at Splunk, Cory’s most visible work has
been to activate Splunk’s unique value propositions in partnership with
McLaren’s F1 and Esports Teams through the Data Drivers program.
Before joining Splunk, Cory was a Principal Engineer and Field CTO at
Dell, focused on emerging AI and Big Data technology research. Cory is
also known as the “Big Data Beard” from the podcast he hosted and
projects such as “The Road Trip to .conf19”. Cory splits time between
Birmingham, AL and Salt Lake City, UT with his wife and two children
who share his crippling addiction to traveling the world.