Jay A. Etchings is a Splunker and industry veteran with nearly three decades of experience in high-performance computing, distributed systems, and data-intensive analysis. Before joining Splunk, Mr. Etchings held scientific research appointments with the National Science Foundation and Arizona State University, where he contributed to funded NSF projects to develop open-source (open-systems) architectures, large-scale data analysis, machine learning, and software-defined networking. Mr. Etchings is a High-Performance Computing Specialist (HPC), Splunk Certified Architect, IT/DevOps SME, and is the author of numerous case studies and publications, most notably ""Strategies in Biomedical Data Science"" published by SAS Wiley in 2018, which outlines software-defined datacenter practices deployed in research and education. Mr. Etchings is a Staff Consulting Solutions Engineer on the Splunk Public Sector Team, supporting the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration.
You can find Jay and his wife, computational archaeologist Dr. Wendy, hiking back-country and getting lost in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado when not engaged in research endeavors.