I’ve been working as a software engineer on various large scale software systems since 2009. I love working with diverse and interesting groups of people. I value solving complex problems simply. I believe strongly in the “engineering” of software engineering: good design processes, good transition and contingency planning, cost estimates in line with business goals.

I current work at Grafana, where we make an incredibly-widely used, open source data visualization and monitoring tool, as well as some of the world’s most capable observability databases. Grafana is hiring.

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My work history:

  • 2022 - Present: Grafana
    • Principal Software Engineer, Grafana SLO
  • 2016 - 2022: Lightstep (acquired by ServiceNow, 2021)
    • Staff Software Engineer, Databases
    • Engineering Manager
    • Software Engineer
  • 2014 - 2016: Twitter
    • Senior Software Engineer, Android, backend
  • 2013 - 2014: Namo Media (acquired by Twitter, 2014)
    • Software Engineer, backend, iOS, Android
  • 2011 - 2013: Google, Inc
    • Software Engineer, full stack
  • 2009 - 2011: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • Computer Scientist

Writing

In addition to the blog here, I’ve written a few times on company blogs and public technical documentation:

Speaking

I speak frequently at meetups and conferences. Here are a few of my recorded talks:

I’m also one of the organizers of Gophercon Singapore, a conference for Go developers in the Asia-Pacific region.