Blaine S.

Blaine Schanfeldt is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Instacart, not a member of their Observability Team. He has been featured in several articles discussing how Instacart uses Datadog's monitoring and security solutions:

• Blaine Schanfeldt, SRE at Instacart, explains how Datadog's Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Management and Security Monitoring solutions allows Dev, Sec and Ops teams to diagnose, collaborate and troubleshoot issues.1

• "At Instacart, we really care about unauthorized access through credential stuffing with data dog security monitoring we've been able to track down malicious third parties and protect our users more quickly all of our teams are able to use data dogs integrated products and we're able to share across the security organization development and infrastructure analysis reports dashboards and views of our logs metrics and monitors and data dogs integrated products allow us to make sure that we're following our SLA and delivering fast service to our customers."1

• "At Instacart, we care about unauthorized access, and with Datadog's security monitoring we've been able to track down malicious third parties and protect our users more quickly," said Blaine Schanfeldt, Site Reliability Engineer at Instacart. "We've been able to move quickly to identify the root cause of security issues such as failed logins. We've been able to track that from throughout our infrastructure, from the external load balancers through to the application."234

So in summary, Blaine Schanfeldt is an SRE at Instacart who has spoken about how they use Datadog's observability and security products, but he is not part of an Observability Team based on the information provided. The LinkedIn profile with username "blaines" does not appear to be him.