Alex Kirtley-close
Principal Field Engineer at Grafana Labs
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Kirtley-close is a Principal Field Engineer with a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale data and observability solutions across Grafana Labs and Elastic. He blends hands-on engineering—Python, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, GCP—with customer-facing roles, translating complex technical requirements into deployable platforms for enterprise stakeholders. His background includes building a Big Data platform at Schlumberger that stored hundreds of billions of downhole data points and even a VR interface for hardware-in-the-loop visualization, showing a knack for creative, cross-disciplinary solutions. Known for going the extra mile, he moves easily between architecting systems and presenting them to executives and engineering teams. Based in the UK, he combines rapid learning with a practical focus on reliability, performance, and stakeholder communication.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Computer Science Computer Science, Bsc Computer Science Computer Science at Nottingham Trent UniversityThe John Warner School
Github Skills (60)
monitoring10
search-engine10
opensearch10
observability10
visualization10
dashboard10
mysql10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
kibana10
java10
restful10
go10
prometheus10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Alex3k/lgtm_hrdr
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Alex3k/grafana_mlt_demo
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 36 commits in 5 months
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