Working With Me

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.

If it’s easier for you to consume this on LinkedIn, here you go.

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:

• Making your system observable from the outside in archive.org
• The concurrent bug I keep writing archive.org
• GoLang Dep: The missing manual archive.org
• Lightstep UQL Reference Documentation archive.org
• Lightstep UQL Cheat sheet archive.org

Speaking

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

• FOSSASIA 2025: Don’t get out of bed for anything less than an SLO (v2)
• GrafanaCON 2024: How we built an SLO app tightly integrated with Grafana
• Conf42 DevOps 2023: Don’t get out of bed for anything less than an SLO
• API World: Making your system observable from the outside in
• gRPC Conf: Setting yourself up for gRPC success

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