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About & contact

I'm a software engineer specializing in SIEM data engineering: getting data into security and observability platforms reliably and at scale. Splunk data onboarding, OpenTelemetry, SC4S, universal and heavy forwarders, Edge Processor, and telemetry pipelines.

I currently work as a Software Engineering Technical Leader at Splunk, where I lead development of Guided Onboarding, part of Splunk's data management portfolio. In 2023–2025 I was part of the SC4S development team and contributed to the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes. Before that I spent several years building NLP, speech recognition, and machine-learning systems in Python. I've also taught Python; I like explaining complicated things in plain language, which is most of what this blog is.

Code

• –github.com/mstopa: personal projects and open source
• –github.com/mstopa-splunk: my work in the Splunk ecosystem

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Questions about a post, a correction, or a data-onboarding problem you're stuck on: all welcome.