Jonah Kowall trained in computer science and co-founded one of the first content filtering companies in the late 1990s. Jonah became a security expert committing code to both the FreeBSD project and helped build the first wireless cracking algorithms. Jonah received his CISSP and CISA along with several infrastructure-related certifications and awards. Throughout 15 years as a practitioner and manager across both startups and large enterprises focusing on infrastructure and operations, security, and performance engineering. Spearheading both tactical and strategic operational initiatives, going deep into monitoring and tuning of infrastructure and applications.

In 2011 Jonah changed careers, moving to Gartner to focus on availability and performance monitoring and IT operations management (ITOM). Speaking and writing research globally for IT leaders and CIOs. Jonah led Gartner’s influential application performance monitoring (APM) and created the network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) magic quadrants along with creating the Network Packet Broker (NPB) term and market. In 2015 Jonah joined AppDynamics to drive the company’s corporate development, product strategy, and vision. Jonah developed new products and solutions with technical partners including product managing, building, and launching new products with IBM, SAP, and ServiceNow. Cisco acquired AppDynamics in 2017 to create IT and business alignment.

After a successful exit Jonah then joined Kentik as CTO to set and execute the product vision and strategy. Kentik is the leader in AIOps and network analytics for network professionals. In 2020 Jonah joined Logz.io as CTO to drive strategy and ecosystem for the industry’s first open source based SaaS solutions for the modern digital business. Coming back to where Jonah’s career began, in the open source community.