Colin currently works as an SRE at DuckDuckGo, orchestrating and inventing solutions to better serve DuckDuckGo's increasingly large portfolio of services, serving search queries and AI chats from around the world. Formerly heading up the Observability Team at Cloudflare, he has been working, advising, and researching in the Monitoring and Observability space for close to 10 years and has gained a wide perspective into the difficulties that modern companies, big and small, deal with in properly introspecting their systems. Originally from New Zealand, he now lives in the UK and regularly speaks at conferences to share insights from the practical side of Observability engineering.