Hello, World! 👋
Kevin Brunette
Sales Engineer & Technologist
I Google, Stack Overflow, and/or ChatGPT my way to fixing stuff
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About Me
Welcome to my corner of the internet!
I'm a sales engineer by day, technologist by passion, and adventure seeker by choice. My journey with technology began in the 90s with a trusty Packard Bell computer, and I've been fascinated by new tech innovations ever since.
When I'm not helping companies understand why they absolutely need whatever I'm selling (spoiler: they usually do), you'll find me on the jiu-jitsu mats where I'm slowly working my way toward a purple belt (currently on the 12-year plan, but we'll get there eventually). I'm also an avid traveler, snowboarder, dirt bike enthusiast, and gym devotee.
My constant companion through all these adventures is Yogi, my pup who has mastered the art of begging for my dinner with those irresistible puppy eyes.
So how did you end up here? Maybe you know me from work or the jiu-jitsu mats. Perhaps you stumbled across this site and you're nosy enough to creep on my profile (no judgment — that's what the internet is for!). Or maybe you just miss the old web and appreciate someone who still thinks "Under Construction" GIFs are cool. Whatever brought you here, welcome!
I built this website as a tribute to the golden age of the internet — back when websites had hit counters, guestbooks, and enough animated GIFs to crash your dial-up connection. Use the theme switcher to take a trip down memory lane!
Fun Facts
- 🐕 Dog dad to Yogi, the goodest boy
- 🥋 Jiu-jitsu purple belt (12-year plan, on schedule)
- 🏂 Snowboarder & dirt bike rider
- ✈️ Will travel anywhere for good food
- 💻 Started on a Packard Bell in the 90s
- 🎮 Undefeated at Snake (on this website, at least)
Resume
A curated collection of things I've done for money
💼 Experience
Senior Sales Engineer
Jan 2023 – PresentEvolven, Inc • Seattle, WA (Remote)
Secured over $7M in enterprise revenue by independently architecting and executing complex POCs end-to-end. Led technical discovery across enterprise stakeholders, uncovering DevOps and observability gaps. Delivered narrative-driven demos that translated complex concepts into clear business value for technical and executive audiences.
Senior Sales Engineer
Sep 2022 – Sep 2023Cribl, Inc • Nashville, TN (Remote)
Led end-to-end pre-sales engagements across enterprise observability and security use cases. Specialized in Microsoft Sentinel integrations, authoring content packs and technical blog posts. Pioneered the effort to create content packs for the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF).
Senior Sales Engineer
Feb 2021 – Aug 2022Observe, Inc • Denver, CO (Remote)
Managed pre-sales discovery, demos, and POV scoping. Hands-on POV work including configuring open-source agents and modeling log data. Secured a $200K deal — the largest in Observe's history at the time.
Senior Sales Engineer
Oct 2017 – Feb 2021AppDynamics • Seattle, London & Denver
Completed a $9M proof of concept at Tesco Ltd (UK's largest grocery chain) to displace major competitors. #2 SE in UK & Ireland in deal revenue for 2019. SE Americas West Rookie of the Year 2017. Mentored junior SEs on containerized environments.
🏆 Accomplishments
- 🎯 Closed $7M+ through FY26 at Evolven
- 📈 Part of the largest deal in history of Observe Inc
- 🏅 SE Americas West Rookie of the Year 2017
- 🥈 #2 SE in UK&I in deal revenue for 2019
- 💰 $9M POC at Tesco Ltd displacing major competitors
🛠️ Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure
Observability & Data
Languages & Tools
Sales Engineering
AI & Automation
🎓 Education
Software Engineering
University of Hull • Kingston Upon Hull, UK
Studied software development and architecture with a focus on C#. Also learned the fine art of Googling error messages at 2 AM.
Photos
Proof that I occasionally go outside
Movies That Shaped Me
The films I've quoted too many times to count
Dumb and Dumber
"So you're telling me there's a chance!"
The movie that proved you don't need brain cells to have a good time. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels set the gold standard for buddy comedies. I've used "So you're telling me there's a chance" in actual sales calls. It works more often than you'd think.
Children of Men
"As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in."
OK, not a 90s movie — but this one hit different. Alfonso Cuarón's single-take sequences are some of the most incredible filmmaking ever. It's bleak, beautiful, and makes you appreciate everything a little more. The kind of movie that stays with you for weeks.
Fargo
"Oh, you betcha, yeah."
The Coen Brothers at their absolute finest. A kidnapping plot gone horribly wrong, set against the most polite backdrop imaginable. Marge Gunderson is one of the greatest characters in cinema history. "And for what? A little bit of money." Perfection.
Mortal Kombat
"MORTAL KOMBAT!" *techno intensifies*
Is it a good movie? Absolutely not. Did 10-year-old me think it was the greatest cinematic achievement of all time? ABSOLUTELY YES. That theme song alone justifies its existence. I still get hyped when those first beats drop. No shame. FINISH HIM!
The Big Lebowski
"The Dude abides."
The ultimate philosophy for life, delivered by a guy in a bathrobe drinking White Russians. Another Coen Brothers masterpiece. "That's just, like, your opinion, man" is the most versatile comeback in the English language. This movie gets better every single time you watch it.
Games
Because productivity is overrated
90s Nostalgia
The stuff that made us who we are (and gave us our screen names)
Blockbuster Video
Friday nights meant one thing: racing to Blockbuster before all the good new releases were gone. "Be Kind, Rewind" wasn't a suggestion — it was a way of life. RIP to the late fees that funded an empire.
GoldenEye 007
Four players, split screen, and an unspoken rule: NO ODDJOB. If you picked Oddjob, you weren't invited back. Proximity mines in the Temple? Pure chaos. The game that destroyed friendships and N64 controllers alike.
AOL & "You've Got Mail"
Three words that made your heart skip a beat. Chat rooms where everyone was definitely lying about their A/S/L. AIM away messages that were basically the first status updates. Your buddy list was your social network.
Dial-Up Internet
KKKKRRRRSSSSHHHH... BONG BONG BONG... KSHHHHHHH... "Welcome!" You knew the sound. You feared the "MOM PICK UP THE PHONE!" interruption. Loading a single image took long enough to make a sandwich. And it was GLORIOUS.
Arcade Games
Pockets full of quarters. The smell of pizza and carpet. Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, Time Crisis, and that one weird racing game nobody played. "Winner stays" was the ultimate flex. The arcade was our kingdom.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Cowabunga, dude! Every kid had their turtle (Michelangelo was the correct answer, fight me). Pizza obsession that we carried into adulthood. The cartoon, the movies, the action figures, the cereal — yes, there was cereal.
Oregon Trail
The only game your school computer lab would let you play. You always named your party after your friends so you could watch them die of dysentery. Nobody ever made it to Oregon. Nobody.
Tamagotchi
Your first taste of responsibility — and failure. That little egg-shaped keychain taught an entire generation that neglect has consequences. Sorry, little guy. I was at school. You deserved better.
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Waking up at 6 AM voluntarily. A massive bowl of sugary cereal. Cartoons from 7 to noon. No streaming, no on-demand — you watched what was on or you missed it forever. And the commercials for toys? Pure propaganda. We loved it.
Floppy Disks & CD-ROMs
1.44 MB of pure storage power. You needed 47 of them to install anything useful. Then CD-ROMs came along with their WHOPPING 700 MB and we thought we'd never need more space. Oh, sweet summer children that we were.
🎵 Kevin's Soundtrack 🎵
I love music of all types — rock, metal, country, you name it. If it slaps, it slaps. Here are some 90s bangers that shaped me. My old AOL screen name was lampbizkat... yes, really. No regrets. Maybe a few regrets.