Iain Finlayson
Solutions Architect at bitdrift
City of Hudson, New York, United States
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Top SchoolIain Finlayson is a solutions architect based in Hudson, New York, with a decade-plus career blending technical pre-sales, engineering management, and content architecture across enterprise software firms. He has progressed from hands-on roles in web and publishing technology to leadership positions at DataStax, Wrike, Grafana Labs, and now bitdrift, demonstrating strength in translating complex technical requirements into customer-facing solutions. Comfortable at the intersection of product, sales, and engineering, he has repeatedly scaled presales teams and steered technical strategy for cloud and observability platforms. His background in biological sciences and publishing gives him a rare combination of scientific rigour and clarity in technical communication. Known for moving between hands-on solution design and people leadership, he brings practical experience in enterprise SaaS, cloud migrations, and partner enablement. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who thrives on untangling complexity to deliver measurable business outcomes.
3 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Biological Sciences Immunology (Hons), BSc Biological Sciences Immunology (Hons) at The University of EdinburghStandard MEDDIC, Standard MEDDIC at MEDDIC AcademyMaster's degree Publishing, Master's degree Publishing at Edinburgh Napier University
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Github Skills (34)
mysql9
wikipedia9
mediawiki9
dashboard9
monitoring9
analytics9
mediawiki-api9
grafana9
android-app9
go9
prometheus9
viewmodel9
data-visualization9
elasticsearch9
coroutines8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
iainfinlayson/argocd-example-apps
Apr 2025 - Apr 2025
Example Apps to Demonstrate Argo CD
Contributions:92 pushes in 11 days
iainfinlayson/wikipedia-android-bitdrift
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
📱 A fork of the official Wikipedia app for Android, with bitdrift instrumentation!
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
bitdriftmobile-developmentobservability
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