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Stuart Mehrens

Senior Solutions Engineer

Experience

SemgrepAlameda, CA
Senior Solutions EngineerMay 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
DatadogBoston, MA
Sales Engineer IIJanuary 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, CA
Software Developer IIJuly 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 IFebruary 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 IIOctober 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 IOctober 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

Skills

LanguagesC#, TypeScript, Python, PowerShell, Bash
AI & AutomationOpenAI API, Anthropic API, RAG, Vector databases, MCP
DevOpsGitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD
Cloud & ContainersKubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure
ObservabilityDatadog, Grafana, OpenSearch

Certifications

The Linux Foundation

  • ·Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • ·Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
  • ·Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
  • ·Certified Cloud Technician (LFC101)

Datadog

  • ·Log Management Fundamentals
  • ·APM & Distributed Tracing Fundamentals
  • ·Datadog Fundamentals

Education

University of ConnecticutMay 2016

B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Cum Laude

Phi Beta Kappa, 2016 · New England Scholar, 2014 · Dean's List, Fall 2013–2015