Isabella Siu
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolIsabella Siu is a Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs in New York with 12 years of experience building backend systems, observability tooling, and full‑stack integrations. She is an active open‑source contributor to flagship projects like Grafana and the MongoDB Go and C++ drivers, with work that spans datasource integrations, auth and middleware modernization, and performance-focused driver improvements. At Grafana she led Google Cloud Monitoring and Azure Monitor integrations and migrated critical data manipulation to the backend; at MongoDB she implemented bulk-write and index management features, a JSON fallback parser, and a client-side timeout design used across driver implementations. An RPI BS/MS graduate with a 3.98 undergraduate GPA, she combines deep systems and database expertise with a pragmatic focus on reliability and observability in production.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.98, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.98 at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Stuyvesant High School
Github Skills (24)
api-doc10
c-language10
admin10
back-end-development10
databases10
drivers10
database-administration10
ccx10
mongodb-database10
database-driver10
go10
driver10
api10
bson10
google-cloud-monitoring10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-go-driver
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
The Official Golang driver for MongoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 337 reviews, 88 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Isabella primarily contributed to the Go driver for MongoDB, focusing on improving its internal functionality. Their work included adding a JSON fallback struct tag parser to handle JSON tags, ensuring proper indexing and error reporting for bulk write operations, and stabilizing core packages with the addition of a topology ID. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs, improved code, and added features to enhance the driver's reliability and performance. The user's contributions support the driver's core functionality for interacting with the MongoDB database.
golanggolang-librarydriverdatabasemongodb-driver
grafana/grafana
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:338 reviews, 64 commits, 284 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Isabella made several contributions related to the Google Cloud Monitoring and Azure Monitor datasources. They refactored code, switched authentication methods to the grafana-google-sdk-go library for Google Cloud Monitoring, and switched from ApplyRoute to AuthMiddleware for the CloudMonitoring service. Furthermore, they worked on migrating data manipulation to the backend and adjusted the resource picker, demonstrating expertise in datasource integration and back-end operations. They were responsible for creating and maintaining integrations with external services.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
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