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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.

Nathan is a Principal Software Engineer at Tripadvisor currently working on their observability stack. Outside of work, he’s an avid gamer and rock climber.

Devin is a Senior Product Manger at Grafana Labs. He loves working with engineering and design to build great products. When he’s not talking about customer problems or working on roadmaps, you can find him at the beach with his family in California, watching the Springboks, or working out.

I’m a QA Architect at Vonage, where I work with a dozen feature teams on QA strategy. I’ve had 15 years of experience in performance and automated testing, plus a couple of years on our SRE team working on observability.

Ted is a Senior Product Manager, solving problems for internal engineers at Unity, with over 10 years of internal IT operations from Security, Compliance, and Ops.

Informally trained, Owen is a senior 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.

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 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.

Ida is a Software Engineer on the Grafana backend team. She has several years of experience working at various startups, building software in Go. Currently she is working on making the Grafana backend more traceable than ever.

Cristian Greco is a software engineer at Grafana Labs, working on Grafana Cloud and integrations. When he’s not at the keyboard, Cristian loves listening to podcasts and watching science documentaries.

Robin, the CEO and Head of Product at k6, has been in the web performance industry for the past 15 years. Involved in development of three generations of load and performance testing tools, including the open source k6. Got into tech because of synthesizers.

Crystal Hirschorn is an experienced engineering leader with 20 years in the technology industry. Currently she is director of engineering at Snyk overseeing cloud native infrastructure platforms, SRE, and cloud security. She frequently speaks at conferences on the topics of resilience engineering, chaos engineering, and DevOps — imparting both theory and practice gained from more than 15 years as a hands-on software engineer working in very diverse, complex systems. She was recently awarded one of the top 100 U.K. influencers in open source software by OpenUK.

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.

An SRE building an IT department. An Enforcer at PAX. That tall guy with purple hair.

Michael leads engineering and support teams supporting multiple lines of business across ICG at Citigroup. In his free time Michael enjoys hiking and playing ice hockey.

I am a principal engineer at Civo. I work with all things observability and SRE. In my free time I am tech lead for CNCF TAG App Delivery.

Manager for the team members working on Prometheus, alerting, Cortex, Loki, and Tempo in EMEA/APAC. Maintains the bluemonday Go HTML sanitizer. Cycles way too much, runs internet forums, and volunteers with LGBTQIA+ groups in the U.K.

Matvey Kukuy is a Senior Engineering Manager at Grafana Labs. He co-founded Amixr and is leading the Grafana OnCall team.

Richard is the Senior Product Manager for Grafana Cloud. His career as a PM has been focused on building platforms that are easy to use and helping users understand how their applications and systems are behaving. At Grafana Labs, he’s been improving our cloud product to make Grafana more accessible to an even larger audience, while simplifying its onboarding experience.

Alex is Director of Professional Services at Grafana Labs. She’s had several years of experience building engineering and customer success organizations at high-growth startups that deliver to large enterprise customers.

Steve Mayzak is Vice President, Global Solution Engineering at Grafana Labs. He is a builder of pre-sales teams, having previously built the Solution Architect team at Elastic, Inc. from the ground up until post-IPO. He’s now working on doing the same thing at Grafana Labs.

Carl is a Senior Project Manager and SRE at TomTom and running coach at Gent Running Team who’s passionate about triathlon.

Xenia Mountrouidou is a Network Automation Engineer at Network to Code. Her role revolves around writing Python scripts to automate network workflows or gathering telemetry data. She has contributed to the pyNTC and Nautobot open source projects. She has a PhD from North Carolina State University and enjoys research in network security metrics. Her hobbies are cave diving, playing piano, and reading.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Unity’s Production and Reliability Engineering team, Taylor focuses on providing observability tooling and services leveraged by Unity’s product teams. Outside of work, Taylor enjoys golfing and hiking out in the Pacific Northwest!

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.

Dieter loves programming, mountain biking, and writing his own bio.

Vinodh leads the Platform Engineering & Infrastructure teams within Chase Consumer and Community Banking Division for the Firmwide Core Deposits program. He enjoys family time with his wife and two kids. He has recently taken up road cycling and successfully completed RAGBRAI XLVIII.

Walter Ritzel Paixão Côrtes is a product designer and data visualization practitioner who works to solve users' problems through a data-driven approach.

Mario is a Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on Tempo and the tracing integration for the Agent.

Chris Sackes is a Software Engineer at Lightstep. A New Yorker by birth, he loves public transportation, architecture photography, and urban exploration. He’s spent the last 5 years engineering delightful user experiences for a variety of applications.

Mary is a Product Designer at Grafana Labs, where she focuses on building new experiences for Grafana Enterprise. She’s been designing for over 10 years in a wide range of industries.

Frank is an SRE at the B2B sports betting company Kambi, currently focusing on making great observability. He has always been fascinated by computers and communication and the potential they have to improve the life of people in small and big ways. Outside of work, Frank enjoys building strange musical instruments, writing code, playing vintage text adventure games, designing electronics, and traveling with his wife.

Rohith Subramanyam is a Software Engineer at Nutanix, where he is building a Kubernetes-based Microservices Platform for internal consumption and a managed Kubernetes product for customers. He built and maintains the monitoring pipeline for these products, among other things. He dabbled with Big Data systems in his previous job and loves working in the intersection of infrastructure and data at scale. He is a productivity hacker, and swears by his zsh, vim plugins, Todoist, and Notion to run his workflows. Playing some form of competitive sports is the way he unwinds.

Anaïs is a Site Reliability Engineer at Civo, a cloud computing company based on Kubernetes. When she is not advocating DevOps best practices, she runs her own YouTube Channel centered around cloud native technologies. Before transitioning to the cloud native ecosystem, Anaïs helped blockchain projects scale.

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.

Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs working on application proxies to bring Grafana and Prometheus closer to everyone. Loves dogs and scuba diving.

Koenraad is Software Engineer at Grafana Labs working on Tempo and Grafana Cloud Traces. In his spare time he’s probably out rollerblading.

Jen Villa is a Product Manager at Grafana Labs focused on Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM) and Grafana Enterprise Logs (GEL). When not hunting for ways to make these products better, she enjoys golfing and playing games with friends.

Tom is VP, Technology at Grafana Labs, a member of the Prometheus team, and one of the original authors of the Cortex and Loki projects. In his spare time, he builds 3D printers and makes craft beer.

Olha has been engineering different things for some years. She is currently a senior software engineer on the k6 OSS project, which is the first open source project she’s been involved in. In her spare time, she likes to acquire new knowledge.