Splunk Core Certified Power User (SPLK-1002)

Joe Abraham, CCIE #62417, is a Cybersecurity Architect working in the public sector space, assisting customers develop and implement functional and secure network architectures. He graduated from Excelsior College with an M.S. in Cybersecurity and a B.S. in Information Technology (Network Management). He currently holds many IT certifications to include CCIE, CISSP, GSEC, and CCNP Security. Joe is a mentor to IT professionals and a blogger who spends his time either with his wife and three child... moreren, exercising, researching and writing about technology, or learning new technologies. Spending much of his experience helping to train and educate IT professionals, he is passionate about teaching and always strives to be a positive influence in the IT field.

Adam Frisbee is an educator, researcher, and practitioner in information systems and technology, specializing in cloud and devops. He is part of the information systems faculty at a major university where he researched, developed the curriculum for, and teaches the graduate level Cloud Computing course (among others). Adam is an experienced professional, having led technology strategy initiatives and technology teams in such diverse domains as convention and tourism, healthcare, manufacturing, h... moreigher education, and government. Adam is a lifelong student who strongly believes that education is the most powerful way to change the world. Adam grew up among the snow-capped peaks, industrious spirit, and brightest minds who inhabit the Silicon Slopes in Utah, and he remains inseparably coupled to its people and its spirit.

Karun is passionate about IT operations. He has 20+ years of hands-on experience in diverse technologies ranging from Linux Administration to Cloud technologies, and everything in between. He specializes in modernizing IT operations with automation, end-to-end monitoring, CI/CD and containerization. He holds professional certifications from half a dozen companies, including IBM, Oracle and Splunk. Karun has extensive experience in popular Application Performance Management tools such as Dynatrac... moree and New Relic; Log aggregation tools such as Elastic Search and Splunk; Software development in Java and Python. He has helped numerous companies implement devops,CI/CD, Monitoring, Log aggregation and Cloud migrations (AWS and Azure) Karun loves to teach. He enjoys producing high-quality, engaging learning materials that are useful for the learners immediately. In his spare time, Karun loves to read fiction, and coach elementary school basketball teams.