Alexa Vargas
Senior Software Engineer II at Grafana Labs
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAlexa Vargas is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing to Grafana Labs' front-end as part of the team behind a widely used open-source observability platform. She specializes in React-based UI engineering, component libraries, accessibility, and product-focused UX improvements, with a track record of fixing deep usability issues in Grafana’s panel editor. Alexa has led migrations and design-system initiatives earlier in her career, speeding development through reusable Storybook-driven components and successful A/B experiments that measurably reduced support load. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, she pairs hands-on coding with cross-team documentation and technical ownership. Based in Amsterdam, she brings a pragmatic blend of product intuition and engineering rigor, often surfacing subtle UX gaps that improve developer and end-user workflows.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Science, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Francisco de Paula Santander University
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
data-visualizations10
typescript10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
javascript10
typescripts10
dashboard10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
May 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:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:979 reviews, 136 commits, 337 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexa primarily worked on improving the user interface and functionality of the Grafana dashboarding platform. Their contributions focused on fixing bugs related to panel editing, and enhancing the overall user experience through the addition of features like improved navigation and tooltips. The user also made changes to the component library, demonstrating a focus on UI consistency and accessibility. The contributions were centered around enhancing the panel editor, and addressing usability concerns within the Grafana ecosystem.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
axelavargas/axelavargas
May 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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