Panel: Designing and building OSS observability tools in the open
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Listen in as members of the Grafana Labs engineering, product, and UX teams answer your questions and share the highs and lows, best practices and lessons learned from designing and building open source observability tools.
Speakers
Teddy Bartha
UX Designer
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Grafana Labs
Teddy is a UX designer at Grafana Labs. She has been designing software for software engineers since 2015, despite having never been a software engineer herself. When she is not staring at screens, you can find Teddy binge-listening to behavioral science podcasts, creating veggie-forward recipes, and running a lot.
Dee Kitchen
VP, Engineering
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Grafana Labs
Manages the global team members who work on Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, and Prometheus. In their spare time they maintain the bluemonday Go HTML sanitizer, runs an OSS platform for community forums, and supports Fedi.Monster in being a platform for fediverse sites. they/them pronouns.
Mihaela Maior
Director of Engineering
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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.
Goutham Veeramachaneni
Product Manager
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Grafana Labs
Goutham is a Prometheus maintainer with experience maintaining the TSDB. After spending many years helping build and run the hosted Prometheus service at Grafana, he recently transitioned to product management, managing the Application Observability and OpenTelemetry products. He still hasn’t lost the itch to code, and continues to contribute to Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and other open source observability tools.
Ryan Perry
Principal Product Manager
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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.
