Stuart Mehrens
Senior Solutions Engineer
I help engineering teams adopt and get the most out of technical products — from security tooling to observability platforms. When I'm not building demos or custom integrations, I'm with my wife Michelle and our German Shepherd/Border Collie mix, Oliver.
Experience
Semgrep
Alameda, CASenior Solutions Engineer
May 2024 – May 2026- ·Led the team in Q1 FY2026 with over $650K in NNARR closed; contributed to $3.5M in total NNARR between May 2024 and May 2026
- ·Built custom solutions for strategic prospects, including a managed scanning framework for 16,000+ repositories using Azure Functions, the Semgrep CLI, and custom ADO pipelines — enabled full deployment within weeks and helped expand a deal from $150K to $600K ARR
- ·Improved Semgrep's demo environment by adding real-time PR examples across GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps, and replacing static dashboards with live data
- ·Created a CLI-based RFP assistant using OpenAI and a vectorized knowledge base to automate questionnaire completion across products
- ·Conducted technical interviews for Solutions Engineer candidates, resulting in three successful hires; mentored new hires through onboarding and early ramp
- ·Won Semgrep's FY2025 Solutions Engineer MVP award after 9 months at the company
Datadog
Boston, MASales Engineer II
January 2023 – May 2024- ·Assisted Account Executives on 31 trial wins resulting in $82,330 NNMRR; contributed to $42,716 in additional indirect NNMRR across 49 customer-facing demos
- ·Won Sales Engineering Rookie of the Year at Datadog's Sales Kickoff Meeting 2024
- ·Selected to represent Datadog at AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas for customer-facing meetings
- ·Created an onboarding project using GitHub Actions and GitLab pipelines to deploy an application to both an EKS and GKE cluster; set up infrastructure, logging, and APM in Datadog for both clusters
OSIsoft (acquired by Aveva)
San Leandro, CASoftware Developer II
July 2021 – January 2023- ·Trained and mentored an intern over a six-month period; oversaw the design and implementation of a new production feature in a microservice
- ·Created build and deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps using YAML, including two that automatically generated documentation for microservice APIs
Software Developer I
February 2020 – July 2021- ·Worked across multiple codebases, including two Azure Service Fabric microservices, to fix bugs and implement new features
- ·Created and presented demos of features and bug fixes to product leadership and engineering teams during triweekly sprint reviews
- ·Served as the primary contact for 75% of on-premise legacy product cases escalated by product support engineering
Product Support Engineer II
October 2017 – February 2020- ·Collaborated with REST API and SDK development teams to identify and document new bugs through deep investigations into support cases
- ·Used Visual Studio and WinDbg to analyze crash and hang dumps of OSIsoft products
- ·Taught classes to customers and employees on networking, security, and OSIsoft products
Product Support Engineer I
October 2016 – October 2017- ·Handled 5–10 support cases daily, conducting research and tests to troubleshoot product issues
- ·Traveled to customer sites to perform software installations and upgrades and advise on maximizing value from OSIsoft deployments
Contact
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