Adrian Stoewer
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrian Stoewer is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and improving backend systems across observability and cloud-native domains, currently at Grafana Labs in Berlin and relocating to Brisbane later this year. He has a strong track record at companies including IBM, Instana, Zalando and SysEleven, moving between senior engineering and a stint in engineering management while maintaining hands-on delivery. Adrian contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as Grafana Tempo, where he enhanced metrics generation and search functionality for a high-volume distributed tracing backend. With a background in biology and computer science from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, he combines analytical rigor with practical engineering to solve complex system and data problems. Known for meticulous attention to detail and curiosity, he focuses on strengthening teams and shipping robust, well-documented solutions. He often uncovers subtle quality and configuration issues that improve long-term operability and developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichComputer Science, Computer Science at Fachhochschule KielBiology, General, Biology, General at The University of Kiel
German, English, French
Github Skills (6)
distributed-tracing10
parquet10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
grafana9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/tempo
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Grafana Tempo is a high volume, minimal dependency distributed tracing backend.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:206 reviews, 8 commits, 120 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on enhancing the Grafana Tempo backend, specifically the metrics generator component. Their work involved extracting and utilizing the `status_message` field from spans for metric generation and incorporating it as a default dimension. They also addressed collision handling with intrinsic dimensions and made updates to the configuration documentation. Furthermore, the user contributed to fixing an issue within the `SearchTagValues` endpoint by addressing typos, introducing constants for search-related files, and refining backend search block functionalities.
opentelemetrytracingtempovolumebackend
stoewer/parquet-cli
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Commnd line tool to analyze parquet files
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 25 commits in 1 month
golangpythonparquet-filesparquetanalyze
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