Honeycomb Welcomes New Field CTO

Liz Fong-Jones, who joined Honeycomb nearly four years ago after a successful career at Google, has been appointed as the company's Field CTO. Her journey at Honeycomb began as the first developer advocate and principal engineer, a risky decision given the company's startup status and financial uncertainties at the time. Despite the challenges, Liz has become a pivotal figure in the company, spearheading major initiatives like developing Service Level Objectives, adopting OpenTelemetry, and reducing compute costs with Graviton, while also contributing to fundraising and co-authoring "Observability Engineering." Her appointment reflects Honeycomb's values of engineering excellence, autonomy, and mutual respect, as well as her advocacy for structural representation and dignity in the workplace. As Field CTO, Liz will focus on working with executive teams at strategic and prospective customers, continuing to drive innovation and growth within the company.