Monica Sarbu is currently Director of Engineering at Elastic, where she is leading the Ingest team that is responsible for the popular open source projects Beats and Logstash, as well as turnkey solutions built on top of the Beats platform. She is the founder of the Packetbeat open source project and the Beats co-creator.

The solutions she leads at Elastic, for logging, monitoring, and security, all work by collecting large amounts of data into Elasticsearch and extracting domain-specific insights from the data. When she’s not busy with the data grokking, she enjoys spending time with her daughter and traveling the world.