Alex Greenbank
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Greenbank is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with eight years of focused experience and a long tenure delivering enterprise-grade systems at IBM before joining Grafana Labs. He combines deep technical chops with leadership experience as an L3 team lead, bringing a pragmatic approach to reliability, observability, and scalable backend engineering. At Grafana Labs he contributes to tooling that helps teams understand and operate complex systems in production. Alex's academic background in computer science and mathematics underpins a methodical problem-solving style and attention to correctness. Colleagues know him for bridging legacy enterprise practices with modern cloud-native workflows and for mentoring engineers through complex operational challenges.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, 2:1 at The Open UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 2:2, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 2:2 at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (32)
timeseries-database10
monitoring10
observability10
grafana-mimir10
graphite10
time-series10
prometheus10
opentelemetry10
admin-interface10
graphing10
multi-tenant10
go9
documentation9
governance8
opentelemetry-collector8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexgreenbank/bthomehub2exporter
Feb 2023 - Feb 2024
A Prometheus Exporter for stats from a BT Smart Hub 2
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
prometheus-exporter
alexgreenbank/elgatoexporter
Aug 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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