IT, security and GRC
10 Splunk experts
These ten engineers, administrators and team leads have run Splunk inside their own organizations, from day-to-day administration to owning the platform. A reader can learn how in-house teams install and upgrade Splunk, onboard data, manage indexers and search heads, and build dashboards and alerts.
Professionals to explore
01—10Brent Smith
LinkedInExperience: Cybersecurity Engineer Expert - Splunk Administrator · Huntington National Bank
Cybersecurity Engineer Expert - Splunk Administrator at Huntington National Bank since 2018, after serving there as IT Security Analyst from 2015 to 2018. The profile headline reads Splunk Administrator at Huntington National Bank, and the profile mentions working in the Security Operations Center. Earlier he was a Field Technician at CBTS (2012–2014).
Chris McDole
LinkedInExperience: Splunk Systems Engineer · Bank of America
Former Splunk Systems Engineer at Bank of America (2024–2026), where the profile says he administered enterprise Splunk platform operations, including cluster health maintenance, RBAC management, AD group mappings and index life-cycle management. Since November 2025 he has also been listed as Splunk Monitoring & Observability Engineer at Fiserv, where he was Senior Systems Engineer from 2017 to 2024.
Matthew A. Osmond
LinkedInExperience: Engineering Lead, Enterprise Monitoring Logging team · First Citizens Bank
Engineering Lead, Enterprise Monitoring Logging team at First Citizens Bank since September 2024, after serving there as Enterprise Monitoring Engineer (2021–2024). The profile describes a Splunk architect and observability engineer with 20 years of enterprise IT and information security experience; before First Citizens he was System Administrator at Tucson Electric Power (2018–2021).
Milind Kale
LinkedInExperience: Splunk Engineer ( VP Admin ) · JPMorganChase
Splunk Engineer ( VP Admin ) at JPMorganChase since 2021, where the profile says he installed Splunk Enterprise, performed upgrades and maintenance, and configured additional indexers, search heads and heavy forwarders. Earlier Splunk roles include Splunk Security Engineer at Fifth Third Bank (2018–2020) and Splunk Engineer Developer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (2020–2021).
Nani G
LinkedInExperience: Senior Splunk Engineer · CVS Health
Senior Splunk Engineer at CVS Health since 2019. The profile describes 10 years in IT with strong experience in Splunk administration and development, including searching and reporting modules, knowledge objects, add-ons, dashboards and clustering. Earlier roles include Splunk Engineer at The J.M. Smucker Co. (2016–2017) and Senior Splunk Developer at Bluecross Blueshield (2018–2019).
Sandeep Rayapati
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Splunk Admin Developer · IDB Bank
Sr. Splunk Admin Developer at IDB Bank since 2017, where the profile lists installing, configuring and administering Splunk Enterprise Server and Splunk Forwarder on RedHat Linux and Windows servers, and creating indexes and updating configuration files on the deployment server. Earlier he was Splunk Developer at Air Products and Chemicals Plant (2015–2017).
Sathish Kannan
LinkedInExperience: Associate Vice President -Technology Service Lead & Splunk Enterprise Architect BOFA · Bank of America
Associate Vice President -Technology Service Lead & Splunk Enterprise Architect BOFA at Bank of America since December 2022. The profile cites over 16 years of IT experience in Splunk Enterprise administration and architecture design, planning, upgrades and migration. Earlier he was Senior Engineer - Splunk Admin & Architect at AstraZeneca (2019–2021).
Supriya Suresh
LinkedInExperience: Splunk System Administrator · TD
Splunk System Administrator at TD since June 2021. The profile describes 7+ years of data analytics, querying, data ingestion and reporting with Splunk and a specialty in building complex Splunk dashboards. Before TD she was a Splunk Consultant at Discovered Intelligence Inc. (2020–2021), after roles at Accenture from 2013 to 2020.
Tilman Berres
LinkedInExperience: Head of Splunk · DZ BANK AG
Head of Splunk at DZ BANK AG since March 2024; the profile also lists Splunk Admin at DZ BANK from 2020 to 2024 and Security Analyst there from 2018 to 2020. The profile describes DZ BANK AG as the central bank for more than 700 cooperative banks in Germany, and lists a brief Splunk Consultant role at suresecure GmbH in 2020.
Tyler Dygert
LinkedInExperience: Splunk Architect and Developer · NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Splunk Architect and Developer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital since November 2025, following Sr. Splunk Content Engineer at CVS Health (2022–2025). The profile describes a cyber security engineer specializing in Splunk administration and architecture, with Splunk Enterprise Security experience; earlier he was Security Engineer at Aspen Dental Management, Inc. (ADMI) (2018–2022).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person to the problem: platform scaling and upgrade questions suit people who describe installing and running indexers and search heads, while dashboard and use-case questions suit those focused on development and content. Check role dates so that questions about current Splunk versions go to someone working with Splunk now.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you size and scale indexers and search heads as daily ingest grew, and what would you do differently?
- 02How do you control license and storage costs while still onboarding the data that teams ask for?
- 03What does your upgrade and change process look like for a production Splunk environment?
About this directory
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