Stuart R. Ainsworth is Senior Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Grainger, where he leads performance and observability initiatives across an increasingly complex and growing distributed architecture. With a background in database administration and CI/CD enablement, Stuart brings a developer-first mindset to reliability engineering. His recent work includes migrating Grainger’s monitoring stack to Datadog and building scalable observability-as-code frameworks. At Datadog Summit, he’ll share how his team unified tooling and culture to drive measurable improvements in service health and team efficiency.