Peter Marshall
Director of Developer Relations
Real-time analytics & observability
Director of Developer Relations
Real-time analytics & observability
“an amazing presenter, incredible in front of customers”
“his breadth and depth of knowledge are outstanding,
his ability to communicate at all levels is impressive.”
Conference talks, community engagement, and external-facing technical storytelling.
Sales Engineer training, technical resource centres, and go-to-market content.
LLM-powered competitive analysis and conference session research at scale.
Technical articles, demo narratives, video, and documentation frameworks.
Demo environments, synthetic data pipelines, and developer experience infrastructure.
Cross-functional glue across Sales, Engineering, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success.
“a fantastic, thought provoking, creative, trusting leader”
From helpdesks to high-stakes infrastructure, from public-sector transformation to open-source community — every step has been about the same thing: helping people and technology meet in the middle.
After gaining a uniquely peculiar BA in Theology and Computer Studies, Peter continued to learn from inspiring mentors what it meant to have a real customer focus, whether on a helpdesk, managing a development team, or delivering high-stakes infrastructure services.
Following the dream of digital transformation in government, Peter went on to create user-focused intranets, information portals, MDM, EDRM, and CRM services. He learned the need for negotiation and how to build effective business capabilities as a trainer, planner, and engineer.
As an architect and service designer, Peter continued to build bridges between people and technology — this time at the heart of UK national infrastructure. Working across line-of-business and digital services, his long-running fascination with all things data opened a new door…
First as a Sales Engineer and then as Director of Developer Relations, Peter joined Imply — the company behind Apache Druid — where he helped build one of the most active open source communities in the real-time analytics space. Speaking at conferences, creating technical content, and working closely with engineering, product, and sales teams, he became a trusted voice at the intersection of technology and community.
Now at the frontier of observability with Imply Lumi, Peter spends his days turning ideas into momentum across the whole organization — connecting Sales, Engineering, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success around a shared sense of where the market is going and what to do about it. That looks like LLM-powered market intelligence tooling, technical enablement frameworks, demo environments, and competitive intelligence programs; it also looks like keynoting industry events on what modern observability can learn from the world of business intelligence, coaching engineers and SEs into their best on-stage selves, and quietly making sure the right people are talking to each other. The best part of the job, still, is watching someone else do something they didn’t think they could.