Speakers
We’re excited to bring over 40 speakers from across the world together for GrafanaCONline. They join us from large companies, startups, and everything in between. Meet this year’s GrafanaCONline lineup.
- Annanay Agarwal
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Fiona Peers Artiaga
Director, Documentation and Technical Writing at Grafana Labs
Fiona Peers Artiaga
Director, Documentation and Technical Writing at Grafana Labs
Fiona leads technical writing and documentation at Grafana Labs. She enjoys solving interesting challenges in the technical content development space to best enable users. When she's not thinking about reusability, you can find her hiking and enjoying the beauty of the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Paul Balogh
Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs
Paul Balogh
Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs
Paul currently works as a Developer Advocate with Grafana k6, focusing on custom extensions. A software engineer and architect for over 25 years, he found his latest obsession with the Go programming language. You'll find him helping build software communities, organizing the St. Louis Go Meetup, playing bass guitar, or cruising around town with his MINI Cooper car club.
- Ward Bekker
Senior Principal Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Ward Bekker
Senior Principal Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Ward Bekker is based in The Netherlands and is part of the Solutions Engineering team at Grafana Labs. As a big fan of the Grafana Loki project, he likes to publish Loki how-to videos on YouTube, share project news and tips on social media, and give Loki- and observability-flavored workshops and webinars. Earlier in his career, he specialized in big data cybersecurity and worked as a developer of high-traffic websites.
- Stephanie Closson
Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Jason Davis
Distinguished Engineer (Developer Relations) at Cisco
Jason Davis
Distinguished Engineer (Developer Relations) at Cisco
Jason is a Distinguished Engineer in Cisco's Developer Relations team. His role is to develop strategic alignments with customer developers, corporate product teams, and industry leaders. His career has involved providing strategic and tactical consulting for hundreds of customers. For the past 11 years, he has also been involved in the CiscoLive NOC, using and orchestrating management and observability tools including Grafana, InfluxDB, Kubernetes, and fping. He also loves to tinker with Raspberry Pi and ESP32 single-board computers.
- Gilles De Mey
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Owen Diehl
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Owen Diehl
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Informally trained, Owen is a principal software engineer at Grafana Labs, mainly working as a maintainer of the Loki project. In the past, he also led engineering for the startup Nutritionix. He is recognizable online by his Bulbasaur avatar.
- Marty Disibio
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Kristina Durivage
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Kristina Durivage
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Kristina Durivage is a software engineer by day, hardware tinkerer by night who lives in Minneapolis with her 3 cats.
- Raj Dutt
CEO, Co-Founder at Grafana Labs
Raj Dutt
CEO, Co-Founder at Grafana Labs
While in college, Raj founded Voxel, a cloud and hosting company acquired by Internap in 2012. His two great passions are observability and aviation; he got his private pilot’s license almost 20 years ago and has completed his motorglider rating.
- Joe Elliott
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Joe Elliott
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Joe Elliott has been working as an SRE/Devops/Infrastructure person with Kubernetes for the last 4 years. Currently a Principal Engineer at Grafana, he is the creator of Tempo, a Jaeger maintainer, and has contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector, Loki and Cortex. When he's not at the keyboard or wrangling kids, Joe likes to get out on his bike.
- Willie Engelbrecht
Senior Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Willie Engelbrecht
Senior Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Willie is currently enjoying a new hobby: astrophotography. He also loves to tinker and visualize all kinds of data in Grafana. Willie has been a user of Grafana for over 6 years and likes helping everyone democratize their observability strategy.
- Christopher Field
President, Managing Member, Lead Developer at Theia Scientific
Christopher Field
President, Managing Member, Lead Developer at Theia Scientific
Dr. Christopher Field is Co-Founder, President, and Principal Investigator at Theia Scientific. Founded in 2020, Theia Scientific provides solutions for automating high-throughput data analysis workflows for scientists and engineers in academic, government, and industrial Research & Development (R&D) environments. With formal education in analytical chemistry and instrumentation, Chris has expertise in scientific hardware and software design, deploying embedded Linux devices for Internet of Things (IoT) and sensor fusion applications, and developing computer vision and image processing pipelines for cell analysis. Prior to co-founding Theia Scientific, Chris worked for a bio-technology startup, at a Department of Defense (DoD) research laboratory, and at his own consulting firm. Chris is an avid skier and an amateur portrait photographer of two cats that tolerate his existence.
- Bailey Heit
Associate Software Engineer at Apeel Sciences
Bailey Heit
Associate Software Engineer at Apeel Sciences
Bailey is an Associate Software Engineer at Apeel Sciences. She leads the Data Collections team, focused on bringing quality software that enables our field technicians to collect rich, accurate data about our produce. Leading the Real-time Process Monitoring Dashboard project feeds into her passion to understand and analyze datasets that positively impact the world. Outside of work, you can find her hiking, playing slow-pitch softball, and attending endless concerts.
- Tabor Henderson
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Tabor Henderson
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Tabor is a software engineer working primarily on helping users understand their own usage of Grafana Cloud, and how to get the most out of it. Tabor's background is in mathematics and data science, though he ultimately found himself most interested in development. Outside of work, Tabor spends most of his free time paragliding, or training for paragliding events.
- David Howard
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Medallia
David Howard
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Medallia
David is a performance and observability engineer at Medallia whose current focus is deploying a scalable logging solution for Medallia using Loki. In his free time he enjoys an assortment of all things electronics, including operating a metrics stack and an enterprise network at home.
- Ivana Huckova
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Ivana Huckova
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Ivana Huckova is a frontend developer on the Observability squad at Grafana Labs. She spends most of her time working on the Explore feature that focuses on infrastructure monitoring and incident response. In her free time and during Grafana hack days, she loves to build fun monitoring solutions for various things, such as her sourdough starter or avocado plants.
- David Kim
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
David Kim
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
David is a fledgling software engineer on the Incidents team. Proud dog dad. Overly obsessed about volleyball.
- Joseph Kim
Senior UX Researcher at Grafana Labs
Joseph Kim
Senior UX Researcher at Grafana Labs
Joe is a UX Researcher at Grafana Labs and is currently based in Paris, France. He began his career in education as a public school teacher, before transitioning into UX and holding research roles at several companies including Alan and Google. In his spare time, Joe enjoys hiking and frequenting coffee shops in the city.
- Marios Klavdianos
Operations Engineer at Fuelics
Marios Klavdianos
Operations Engineer at Fuelics
Marios currently lives in Athens and works at Fuelics as an Operations Engineer. A major part of Marios' role at Fuelics is sensors testing and calibration. In his free time, he tries to learn as much as he can about software engineering, and when he's not doing any of the above, you can find him in the city with a camera.
- Marie-Claire Kore
Lead Data Engineer at Torqata
Marie-Claire Kore
Lead Data Engineer at Torqata
Marie-Claire is a Lead Data Engineer with an amazing team working on Data Ingestion and Alerts at Torqata. Her career has spanned all aspects of the mobility industry focused on building data products that enable informed and responsible decisions. She is passionate about transforming the mobility industry and how we think about moving people and goods. A frequent traveler, she loves visiting family all over the globe.
- Myrle Krantz
Engineering Director at Grafana Labs
Myrle Krantz
Engineering Director at Grafana Labs
Myrle Krantz is Engineering Director and department head for Application Observability at Grafana Labs. Myrle is an expert in open source strategy. As a member of The Apache Software Foundation, she volunteers there frequently in roles that have included Board Member, Event Chair, Treasurer, and VP Infrastructure. An American immigrant to Germany and the mother of two daughters, Myrle loves to read, jog, hike, and swim.
- Fauzi Lutaaya
Systems and Software Engineer at KCB Bank
Fauzi Lutaaya
Systems and Software Engineer at KCB Bank
Fauzi Lutaaya is an Applications Developer at Exim Bank Uganda Limited. Before joining Exim Bank in late February 2022, Fauzi was the ICT Digital Channels Support Manager at KCB Bank Uganda Limited, a leading bank in Eastern Africa. Fauzi was responsible for all the ICT operations of the bank's Digital Financial Services (DFS), which include ATMs, Agency, Mobile, and Internet Banking platforms, in addition to specialized digital partnerships with key telecommunication companies like Airtel Uganda and MTN Uganda. Fauzi enjoys simplifying complex ICT technology to business stakeholders so as to boost consistent performance and profitability. Fauzi is involved in the financial inclusion strategy of delivering cheap and affordable financial services to unbanked populations by leveraging open source technology from Apache-Fineract.
- Farhan Manjiyani
Product Marketing Manager at Grafana Labs
Farhan Manjiyani
Product Marketing Manager at Grafana Labs
Farhan Manjiyani focuses on helping customers make a decision on the best observability vendor for their current and future strategy. Outside of work, you will find him fighting 'dad bod' by playing frisbee in the park or making his mom proud by perfecting his butter chicken recipe.
- Nathan Marrs
Tech Lead at Grafana Labs
Nathan Marrs
Tech Lead at Grafana Labs
Nathan is a tech lead on the Data Visualization squad who specializes in React. He is excited to work on building and extending Grafana's data visualization capabilities. Outside of work Nathan enjoys skiing, hiking, and spending quality time with his family and friends.
- Bogdan Matei
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Bogdan Matei
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Eve Meelan
Manager, Documentation and Technical Writing at Grafana Labs
Eve Meelan
Manager, Documentation and Technical Writing at Grafana Labs
- Yonatan Mevorach
Infrastructure Team Lead at Wix.com
Yonatan Mevorach
Infrastructure Team Lead at Wix.com
Yonatan is a Team Lead in the Frontend Infrastructure group at Wix.com, where he is able to make his love for creating developer tools a part of his daily work. He also enjoys working on open source developer tools, and blogs about them at blog.yonatan.dev.
- Ioannis Nikolaou
Partner, Head of Cloud & Platforms at Fuelics
Ioannis Nikolaou
Partner, Head of Cloud & Platforms at Fuelics
Ioannis, Partner and Head of Cloud & Platform at Fuelics, has two decades of experience in requirements management, systems integration, and software development. Ioannis is involved in the design and deployment of complex, multidisciplinary projects in the fields of telecommunications, security, automation, command and control, and systems integration; is passionate about all things software engineering and agile development practices; and is an avid photographer and amateur marathon runner.
- Pauric O'Callaghan
Senior Product Designer at Grafana Labs
Pauric O'Callaghan
Senior Product Designer at Grafana Labs
Pauric has 20+ years experience helping improve the user experience of hardware and software interfaces. In his spare time, he can be found tinkering in his workshop or planning his next motorcycle adventure.
- Torkel Ödegaard
CGO, Co-Founder at Grafana Labs
Torkel Ödegaard
CGO, Co-Founder at Grafana Labs
Torkel is the creator of Grafana, the open source metrics dashboard that Grafana Labs is built around. He enjoys seeing people use metrics more through beautiful and easy to use software. Torkel is infatuated with the theory of evolution.
- Kostas Pelelis
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Kostas Pelelis
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Marco Pracucci
Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs
Marco Pracucci
Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs
Marco is a Grafana Mimir maintainer. He contributed to building some of the Grafana Mimir core features, like blocks storage, query sharding and scalable compactor. His current focus is on further simplifying the Mimir operability at any scale.
- AJ Pryor
CTO at Torqata
AJ Pryor
CTO at Torqata
AJ Pryor is an analytics executive, data scientist, full stack developer, GCP-certified Professional Data Engineer, and Ph.D. physicist with expertise in high-performance computing, distributed systems, and automated DevOps. AJ's passion lies at the intersection of analytics, business strategy, data science, and human collaboration towards solving challenging problems. AJ creates and contributes to open source projects and is interested in building computers, kickboxing, real estate investing, Formula One racing, football (go Jackets!), and the guitar.
- Ted Raymond
Systems Administrator Engineer - Earth Station Resources at Dish Network
Ted Raymond
Systems Administrator Engineer - Earth Station Resources at Dish Network
Ted Raymond is the Systems Administrator Engineer - Earth Station Resources for Dish Network. His responsibilities include maintaining and monitoring the Earth Station Operations database and server infrastructure. Ted is married to his high school sweetheart (20 years this year), and they have 5 kids and currently live in the South Chicago suburbs. Ted enjoys researching all types of technologies, both past and present. The way he sees it, there is always a tool for the job, so always be on the lookout no matter where you are. Grafana was one of those tools that was discovered to solve a problem. Now it's growing into a valuable resource within his role at Dish Network.
- Giordano Ricci
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Anshul Sharma
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Anshul Sharma
Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Anshul is a Product Manager at Microsoft based in Singapore. He is passionate about all things cloud and data. Outside work, he is a video game junkie and spends sleepless nights on caffeine competing online.
- Mark G. Smith
Team Lead, Portal Monitoring at Optum Digital
Mark G. Smith
Team Lead, Portal Monitoring at Optum Digital
Mark is the leader of a team of monitoring experts that is rapidly developing a comprehensive set of dashboards, alerts, and reports for executives, product leaders, and technologists that shows the health of websites used by millions of people. Mark has experience in leading software development teams in health care, insurance, manufacturing, and agriculture markets utilizing open source, mobile, BI, and .Net technologies, and is an expert at bridging the gap between business needs and technology capabilities to create robust solutions that drive high returns on investment. Hobbies include hockey, golf, and building a cabin in the Northwoods of Minnesota.
- Brian Sohmers
VP of Products at Apeel Sciences
Brian Sohmers
VP of Products at Apeel Sciences
Brian is head of digital products at Apeel, helping reduce food waste. In his spare time, he loves to playing bass guitar and volleyball.
- Leon Sorokin
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Peter Štibraný
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Vic Thomas
Principal Software Engineer at Medallia
Vic Thomas
Principal Software Engineer at Medallia
Vic works for Medallia, Inc. as a Principal Software Engineer in the Performance and Observability Engineering team. He lives in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, USA with his wife, two sons, and their dog. Hobbies include yoga, (sub)urban hikes, and suffering the ups and downs of Cleveland's pro sports teams.
- Cyril Tovena
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Cyril Tovena
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
At Grafana Labs, Cyril mainly focuses on Loki, an open source logs aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. He previously worked at Ubisoft, scaling dedicated game servers in the cloud using Kubernetes. Cyril also contributed to Agones creation, an open source project to scale dedicated servers on Kubernetes.
- Leah Ujda
UX Manager in R&D at Grafana Labs
Leah Ujda
UX Manager in R&D at Grafana Labs
Leah Ujda is Senior UX Manager at Grafana Labs. The UX team brings a human-centered, research driven approach to the design of our products. Leah is curious about people and inspired by creative problem solving.
- Nicole van der Hoeven
Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs
Nicole van der Hoeven
Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs
Nicole is a Developer Advocate at k6.io. She is a performance engineer with over ten years' experience in breaking software and learning to build it back up again. She has worked as a performance testing consultant in Australia and the Netherlands, helping teams all over the world scale up their load tests on the cloud. She spends eight hours a week playing Dungeons & Dragons, and her real-life alignment is chaotic good.
- Toby Varland
VP of Technology at Varland Plating
Toby Varland
VP of Technology at Varland Plating
Toby Varland is Vice President of Technology at Varland Plating in Cincinnati, Ohio. Toby has spent his career in the electroplating industry, working through all aspects of factory floor automation from hardware selection and installation to PLC programming to HMI design. Currently, much of Toby's focus is integrating PLCs and hardware from Opto22 with other third-party products such as NodeRED, InfluxDB, and Grafana.
- Koenraad Verheyden
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Anugrah Vijay
Senior Software Engineer at Medallia
- Mikhail Volkov
Founder/CEO at Volkov Labs
Mikhail Volkov
Founder/CEO at Volkov Labs
Mikhail is Founder/CEO at Volkov Labs, where they are developing open source and commercial custom plugins for Grafana.
- Pete Wood
Head of DesignSpark Experience at RS Components
Pete Wood
Head of DesignSpark Experience at RS Components
Pete has work in the electronics industry for 25 years in technical sales and marketing, applications, and online communities. Pete's work with DesignSpark has included some exciting projects, from sending a Superman action fiqure into space for Mattel Toys, to an ocean adventure where he attempted to sail a 3D printed model boat into the record books. Pete is a casual PC gamer and amateur radio (HAM) enthusiast, and enjoys various outdoor pursuits.