Geoff Higginbottom
Staff Solutions Architect at Splunk
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeoff Higginbottom is a seasoned cloud and solutions architect with over 25 years in IT and more than a decade focused on cloud platforms, now serving as Staff Solutions Architect at Splunk. He combines deep technical leadership—across OpenStack, Apache CloudStack, Azure, and AWS—with hands-on experience designing and migrating large-scale IaaS environments for service providers and enterprises. A former CTO and long-time open-source committer to Apache CloudStack, he pairs strategic architecture skills with practical delivery experience from consultancy and product roles. Geoff is also an experienced public speaker and trainer who has built tailored CloudStack training programs and regularly presents at global IT events. His background as a Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer Artificer underpins a disciplined, real-time systems engineering mindset that informs his approach to resilient, secure cloud solutions.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Royal Naval School of Engineering
Github Skills (27)
observability10
splunk10
gauge10
apm10
rum10
synthetics10
opentelemetry10
python9
ansible9
automation9
ssh9
signalfx8
tplink8
network-configuration7
terraform7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
geoffhigginbottom/cookbook-testing
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:177 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
geoffhigginbottom/otel_ta
Sep 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:5 releases, 70 pushes, 4 tags in 2 years 9 months
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