Mars Lan

Senior Staff Engineer at Cribl

Mars Lan is a highly experienced engineer currently serving as a Senior Staff Engineer at Cribl since April 2025, focusing on innovative projects. Prior to this, Mars co-founded and held the position of CTO at Metaphor Data, where efforts were directed toward developing a platform for intricate organizational data challenges. From January 2017 to November 2020, Mars was a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, leading a 16-engineer team to build critical metadata infrastructure. Additionally, Mars spent four years at Google in various roles, contributing to Gboard personalization and enhancing Google App Engine. Earlier experiences include internships at Google and Qualcomm, and professional roles at Navico and Navman New Zealand. Mars holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from UCLA, along with multiple engineering degrees from the University of Auckland and a research background from the Nagoya Institute of Technology.

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Cribl

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Cribl makes open observability a reality for today’s tech professionals. The Cribl product suite defies data gravity with radical levels of choice and control. Wherever the data comes from, wherever it needs to go, Cribl delivers the freedom and flexibility to make choices, not compromises.


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