Speakers
We’re excited to bring over 30 speakers from across the world together for GrafanaCON. They join us from large companies, startups, and everything in between. Meet this year’s GrafanaCON lineup.
- 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.
- Navish Bahl
Principal Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Navish Bahl
Principal Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Adrien Bestel
Principal Engineer at tb.lx by Daimler Truck
Adrien Bestel
Principal Engineer at tb.lx by Daimler Truck
Originally from France, Lisbon-based Adrien Bastel currently works as a Principal Engineer at tb.lx, a Digital Product Studio for Daimler Truck, with a focus on operations. He loves functional programming and when not in front of a computer, Adrien loves to cook.
- Felix Beuke
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Felix Beuke
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Felix is a mechanical engineer turned software engineer. In previous jobs, he was trying to make robots move things around and let people pay for things online. He's now a Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he works on Mimir.
- Yaëlle Chaudy
Engineering Manager at Grafana Labs
Yaëlle Chaudy
Engineering Manager at Grafana Labs
Yaëlle is the Engineering Manager for the Frontend Platform team at Grafana Labs. After earning a PhD in computing (Serious Games and Learning Analytics) and working for a few years in academia, she applied her love for data and experiments to a career in software engineering. When she is not thinking about the next A/B test she is running, she is gardening or enjoying family time with her three children.
- Stephanie Closson
Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Djamel Djedid
Head of Application Development & Integration at DHL Express Switzerland
Djamel Djedid
Head of Application Development & Integration at DHL Express Switzerland
Djamel Djedid is currently Head of Application Development and Integrations at DHL Express. Together with his team he takes care of business critical IT systems in various fields of logistics such as shipment tracking, customs clearance, financial transactions, mobile applications, and data analytics. The systems handle millions of shipments per year in Switzerland and millions of data transactions per week. Innovation and high business sense are the heart of his daily decisions. His passion for analytics and SRE have naturally led him and his team to try, adopt, and expand Grafana usage – with no regrets at all. Observability plays a critical role in ensuring and improving business continuity to make sure that shipments get delivered on time. Djamel has over 20 years of IT expertise and has held various Global IT management roles, which have taken him to every region of the globe to enable large scale IT solutions and infrastructure implementations. Outside of work, Djamel is a part-time IT university teacher and an official soccer referee in the French League.
- Patrick Dohmen
Core Contributor at Libre Space Foundation
Patrick Dohmen
Core Contributor at Libre Space Foundation
Patrick Dohmen has been a core-contributor for Libre Space Foundation (LSF) for a few years now, working on space- and ground-segment software for satellites. He is a firefighter and paramedic in his work-life and also volunteers at the local fire-department. In his spare time, Patrick's favorite hobbies include is HAM Radio and being active in international dog sport.
- Dan Doyle
Senior Full-Stack Software Developer at ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) at Berkeley National Lab
Dan Doyle
Senior Full-Stack Software Developer at ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) at Berkeley National Lab
Dan is a senior full-stack software developer at ESnet focusing on network measurement data collection, analysis, and visualization – from optical laser strength to BGP peering availability to netflow analysis and everything in between. In his spare time, he enjoys beekeeping, woodworking, and home automation – all of which involve Grafana at some level!
- Matt Durham
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Matt Durham
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Matt Durham has been a software Developer for 20 years. He's done everything from managing interdisciplinary teams, to writing code, which he still loves to do to this day.
- 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/Infrastraucture 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.
- Dmitry Filimonov
Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs
Dmitry Filimonov
Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs
Creator of Pyroscope — open source continuous profiling platform
- John Hill
Web UI Test Engineer at KBR Inc. @ NASA Ames Research Center
John Hill
Web UI Test Engineer at KBR Inc. @ NASA Ames Research Center
- Amit Singh Hora
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Amit Singh Hora
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Amit Singh Hora, a Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA, possesses more than 10 years of experience in developing and designing highly scalable systems capable of handling billions of events. He has a strong passion for open source technologies and has employed and implemented numerous tools during his journey. Additionally, Amit has mentored several bootcamps conducted by different universities. During his leisure time, he enjoys swimming and spending quality time with his family.
- Quynton Johnson
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Grafana Labs
Quynton Johnson
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Grafana Labs
- Kaviraj Kanagaraj
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Andy Lake
Network Software Engineer at ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) at Berkeley National Lab
Andy Lake
Network Software Engineer at ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) at Berkeley National Lab
Andy Lake is a Network Software Engineer at ESnet on the Measurement and Analysis team. He plays a lead role on multiple projects, including the open source measurement toolkit perfSONAR and the Stardust measurement platform. He has a strong interest in collecting data about networks and finding ways to make it useful to users with wide ranges of backgrounds.
- Michael Lerch
Lead Architect at DHL Express Switzerland
Michael Lerch
Lead Architect at DHL Express Switzerland
Michael Lerch joined DHL 15 years ago as a developer. Since then, he has been a project manager, team leader, and application owner for Customs clearance and warehouse applications. Michael enjoys the variety of his job from requirements gathering, design, software development, release to production until the support, and, of course, the observability of it all once live. In his free time, Michael enjoys hiking, swimming, golfing, and traveling.
- Zach Leslie
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Zach Leslie
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Mihaela Maior
Director of Engineering at Grafana Labs
Mihaela Maior
Director of Engineering at Grafana Labs
Mihaela is a senior leader with a keen interest in open leadership, agile mindset, and value creation. Since joining Grafana Labs, she has been leading a growing engineering team focused on visualizing, sharing, and correlating data using Grafana. In her free time, which is shared with her family and dogs, Mihaela enjoys hiking, camping, and spending time outdoors.
- Bertrand Martin
CEO at Sentry Software
Bertrand Martin
CEO at Sentry Software
Bertrand Martin is the co-founder and CEO of Sentry Software, a major player in IT infrastructure observability with hundreds of enterprise customers worldwide. In the last year, Bertrand's technical breakthroughs allowed Sentry Software to design a pure-software solution to measure the electricity consumption and carbon footprint of any IT equipment in the data center. Bertrand is also personally involved in various open source projects, including OpenTelemetry, Maven, and the Green Software Foundation. A dynamic and sought-after public speaker, known for captivating his audience, Bertrand participates in IT conventions and conferences to promote the company's innovative solutions for sustainable IT.
- 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
- Jose Luis Latorre Millas
Software Architect & Developer Community Lead at Swiss Life
Jose Luis Latorre Millas
Software Architect & Developer Community Lead at Swiss Life
- 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.
- Travis Patterson
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Travis Patterson
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Travis works to make external data available to Grafana as part of the Enterprise Plugins team. When he's not at work, Travis can almost always be found exploring the Colorado backcountry.
- Ryan Perry
Engineering Director at Grafana Labs
Ryan Perry
Engineering Director at Grafana Labs
Ryan is an Indiana native who made the transition from business to coding after working in corporate jobs. After completing a coding bootcamp, they moved to Oakland, CA, and have since worked at startups, co-founded an OSS startup (Pyroscope), and successfully merged it with Grafana Phlare. In their free time, they enjoy basketball, video games (especially Smash Bros!), cooking, and indulging in some guilty pleasure reality TV.
- Dominik Prokop
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Amandeep Ratte
Head of Data Science at a multinational AgTech company
Amandeep Ratte
Head of Data Science at a multinational AgTech company
Amandeep Ratte is the Head of Data Science at an AgTech company focused on vertical farming. He is passionate about agriculture, science policy communication, and civic-tech. Outside of work, Amandeep volunteers with Code for America and science-policy non-profits. When not there, you can find him reading about social and political and social effects of new technologies.
- Fabrizia Rossano
Senior Product Manager at Grafana Labs
Fabrizia Rossano
Senior Product Manager at Grafana Labs
- Mitch Seaman
Director of Product at Grafana Labs
Mitch Seaman
Director of Product at Grafana Labs
Mitch is the Product Director for Grafana. He was Grafana's second PM and helped develop Grafana Enterprise from its early days. He has Product experience across a range of industries, from observability to startups, education, entertainment, manufacturing, and government.
- Kyle Shelton
Senior DevOps Engineer at Toyota Racing Development
Kyle Shelton
Senior DevOps Engineer at Toyota Racing Development
- Christian Simon
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Christian Simon
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Christian can rely on a broad set of experiences around the Linux ecosystem. Starting as early as Kernel version 2.2, he managed to convert his hobby into a career: working as a Kubernetes consultant, he saw both the opportunities and the challenges that modern observability stacks provide to Enterprises. Now as a Software Engineer on the Grafana Enterprise Stack team, he is working towards minimizing the challenges and maximizing the opportunities. As soon as he is away from his laptop, he enjoys visiting if not organizing gigs and/or music festivals and keeping fit with swimming, hiking, and road cycling.
- Pradeep Thalasta
Senior Software Engineer, Data Science/ML at NVIDIA
Pradeep Thalasta
Senior Software Engineer, Data Science/ML at NVIDIA
Pradeep is a Senior Software Engineer, Data Scientist/ML at NVIDIA working on Cyber AI. Pradeep obtained his Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, LA. He is mainly focused on Deep Learning, Graph Neural Networks and, Distributed GPU computing workflows for data processing and model training. During his leisure time, he enjoys photographing celestial objects.
- Katrina Turner
Software Engineer at ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) at Berkeley National Lab
Katrina Turner
Software Engineer at ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) at Berkeley National Lab
Katrina is a Software Engineer at ESnet working primarily on UI development. She creates dashboards and custom plugins for the Stardust project and has contributed five panel plugins to the Grafana Community plugin library to date. In her free time, Katrina enjoys chasing after her two toddlers, baking, dancing hula, and going to the beach.
- Ying Wang
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Ying Wang
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Ed Welch
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Ed Welch
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Ed has a varied career history of software development, including robotic control systems, vehicle fleet tracking, and telecom middleware. He has worked at both startups and large enterprises, and is now a Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he leads the Loki project.
- Anthony Woods
Co-Founder at Grafana Labs
Anthony Woods
Co-Founder at Grafana Labs
Anthony ran Operations for Voxel in Singapore, and has also worked on the tooling that keeps Visa's payment systems running. Anthony enjoys spending time outdoors with his family in sunny Perth, and having the occasional beer or two.