David Schmidt

Helping DACH Organizations Turn Data into Answers | Search, Observability, Security & AI

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

About

How much of your data can you see, search, and secure - in real time? For most teams, the honest answer is: less than they'd like. Data is exploding, tools keep multiplying, and the gaps between them are where cost, risk, and friction hide. Reach out if you would like to: 🔎 Search - Avoid the fragile puzzle of standalone vector DBs and keyword middleware. Build secure and compliant GenAI and RAG that query keyword, vector, and analytical metadata via ES|QL in a single query - dropping retrieval latencies from 30s to under 100ms. 📊 Observability - Consolidate logs, metrics, and traces into a single datastore. Eliminate unpredictable billing driven by legacy "custom metric taxes." With OpenTelemetry-native infrastructure (EDOT), your engineers stop tool-flipping and find root causes faster. 🛡️ Security - Deploy a modern SIEM + XDR solution without the legacy "Data Tax." Query years of historical compliance logs directly on low-cost object storage in seconds - completely eliminating hours of rehydration delays or soaring historical volume fees. 💸 Predictable Economics - Escape traditional "ingest taxes." Our resource-based pricing means you scale your telemetry, endpoints, and data growth predictably - paying only for the actual storage and compute you consume. __ You benefit from: 🔹 Dedicated DACH Focus - Local expertise aligned with regional compliance (GDPR, NIS2, KRITIS..). 🔹 Deploy anywhere - Cloud, on-premise, or air-gapped. 🔹 Open by design - Active contributor to OpenTelemetry, native PromQL, and open standards. Swap the backend, keep the dashboards and skills your team already loves. __ My Partnership Philosophy: Navigating Search, Observability, and Security can be complex. My focus is on simplifying that journey for you. By matching your unique operational challenges with a single, clear strategy, we eliminate technical friction and bring your engineering and security teams together. My 8 years in B2B sales have shaped my commitment to one simple idea: to be the dedicated, reliable partner I would want for myself. For me, this work is about building a genuine partnership for your long-term success. __ Me in a sentence: A curious, driven professional who loves building genuine relationships, practicing mindfulness, and diving deep into technical themes.

Experience

  • Account Executive DACH at Elastic
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    Elastic is the world's leading Search AI Platform, enabling organizations to search, analyze, and act on data in real time. As a Strategic Partner in the DACH region, I help companies unite search, observability, and security into a single ecosystem. By connecting signals across complex data sets, we help teams break down data silos, surface instant insights, and drive innovation - whether they are building next-gen GenAI search, troubleshooting application performance, or neutralizing security threats.

  • Commercial Account Executive DACH at Semrush
    Aug 2025 - Jan 2026 · 6 mos

    The era of single-channel marketing and siloed data is over. To win today, businesses require a complete, unified view of their digital landscape. Semrush has evolved to meet this challenge, transitioning from a leading SEO toolkit into a comprehensive Holistic Marketing Intelligence platform. Semrush Enterprise now provides a single source of truth by integrating data and insights across five fundamental pillars of marketing intelligence: • Search Intelligence: Provides unparalleled visibility into organic and paid search performance, including deep insights for emerging channels like AI-powered answers. • Traffic Intelligence: Provides a complete market view by analyzing overarching web trends, deconstructing competitor acquisition strategies, and qualifying traffic to assess its potential for conversion. • Behavioural Intelligence: Offers deep insights into on-site user engagement, mapping customer journeys, analysing cohorts, and identifying conversion opportunities. • Social Intelligence: Monitors real-time brand conversations, audience sentiment, and competitive activity across all major social media platforms. • Brand Intelligence: Measures and optimises brand impact by testing creative effectiveness, analysing message resonance, and gathering real-time feedback on both product and brand perception. As a publicly-traded market leader (NYSE: SEMR) trusted by over 30% of Fortune 500 companies, Semrush empowers businesses to move from interpreting disconnected data points to making decisive moves that win market share.

  • Inside Sales Manager DACH at BlackBerry
    Jun 2022 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    BlackBerry, once known for smartphones, is now a global leader in enterprise security, secure communications, embedded systems, and endpoint protection. Key Topics: • Enterprise Mobility Management (UEM) • Unified Endpoint Security (based on AI and machine learning) | BlackBerry Cylance • Cyber Security and Cyber Resiliency - Assess (Red Teaming, Penetration Testing, Strategic Services/GAP, NIS-2,…) - Defend (Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Darkweb Assessments, CA, TTX...) - Manage (XDR Managed Extended Detection & Response, EDR/EPP Endpoint Protection Advisory Services) • Secure Communications (sovereign encrypted mobile communications and emergency response solutions

  • Inside Sales Manager DACH at Decisions
    Nov 2021 - Jun 2022 · 8 mos

    We’re Passionate About Transforming Meeting Culture At Decisions, our goal is to make meetings the most productive part of the day. Our award-winning app empowers workplace leaders to maximize every meeting, whether they’re remote, in-person or hybrid. And we’ve helped turn millions of minutes spent in meetings into more fruitful outcomes — at Fortune 500s, 10-person nonprofits, and beyond — while increasing the adoption and usage of Microsoft Teams and Office 365. • BIG PICTURE Culture Matters to Us We believe that organization's culture should inspire. At Decisions, we provide space for our team members to excel, collaborate and work together toward creative problem-solving. But brilliant culture doesn’t happen by accident. At Decisions, we believe that improving culture has to start in an area where a lot of us could be doing better — meetings. • DETAILS We’re Revolutionizing Meetings Without paying deliberate attention to meeting culture, the meetings of today tend to default to the kind that we’ve all been in: directionless, a waste of valuable working time and lacking in results. But meetings don’t have to be this way — especially not when you’re armed with the right intention and the right tools. When we bring people together, we should be enabling their best work, both inside and outside of the meeting. That’s why we built a tool that empowers teams to elevate meeting culture at their organizations. • TEAM And We’re Doing It With a Great Team At Decisions, we’ve gathered individuals who believe that organizational challenges can be overcome with practical, functional technology solutions. To build tools that drive engagement and inspire problem-solving, you need a team of engaged problem-solvers.

  • Inside Sales Account Manager DACH at BlackBerry
    Aug 2019 - Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Who are we? For most businesses, most of the time, security and mobility are conflicting values that can only advance at the expense of each other. They’re necessities that need to be balanced against business goals. And, they’re managed to minimize risk instead of maximize returns. That’s where we see an opportunity to do something big. Something transformational. We, at BlackBerry believe that secure mobility isn’t an oxymoron it’s the new competitive advantage. When businesses no longer worry about where their data travels, they can make it more accessible. When employees can securely work wherever they want, they can get closer to their customers. When it’s possible to create custom mobile applications on a secure platform, new models of doing business can flourish. When security and mobility go hand in hand, business leaders have the freedom to pursue bolder strategies. BlackBerry offers the most complete secure mobility solution available. From our collaboration suite, to our ecosystem of partners and applications, to our secure mobile development platform, we have every aspect of secure mobility covered, along with the expertise and experience to solve for today and tomorrow. In a time where leaders are looking for competitive advantage everywhere, we help them take their business anywhere At BlackBerry, we empower mobile business transformation. - Cyber Security - Enterprise Mobility - Enterprise Collaboration - Endpoint Management