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Owen Phelan

Owen Phelan

Account Executive — observability; formerly Datadog sales engineer

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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dublin, Ireland
Joined October 2025

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Summary

Experienced observability presales practitioner: Owen spent multiple years as a Sales Engineer at Datadog in EMEA where he delivered hands‑on workshops, technical demos, and customer enablement around logging, APM, and Kubernetes. He was publicly visible as a presenter at meetups and was recognized internally as a top sales engineer (MVP/awards). youtube+2
Transitioned into account management / sales roles in observability: After presales engineering roles, he is listed publicly as an Account Executive at AppSignal (company 'Meet the team' page) and has held commercial account responsibilities at Datadog, indicating a move from technical presales into quota-carrying sales roles. appsignal+1
International / expatriate experience and public-facing communicator: Public snippets and profiles indicate time living in Amsterdam (worked in Datadog EMEA) and ties to Dublin. He appears comfortable in public-speaking and community events (meetups, workshops) and has personal interests in performing arts which inform his presentation style. issuu+2

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Salsa dancer, musician, and yogi (mentioned on company profile). appsignal