Alexander Weaver
Senior Software Engineer II at Grafana Labs
Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Weaver is a Senior Software Engineer II at Grafana Labs with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable observability and alerting systems. He contributes across backend and frontend boundaries, shipping features for Grafana, Mimir, and Prometheus Alertmanager that improve notification channels, templating, and provisioning APIs. Comfortable in DevOps and testing roles, he has a track record of modernizing dependencies, hardening cross-platform behavior (notably Tornado/Windows async fixes in JupyterHub), and improving test coverage for complex parsers. Based in Oregon, he combines deep systems-level engineering with practical UX improvements for alerting workflows and has a strong history of open-source collaboration on widely used projects.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Bachelor’s Degrees Computer Science Mathematics, Dual Bachelor’s Degrees Computer Science Mathematics at Texas Tech University
English
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Github Skills (44)
dependency-management10
json10
jupyterhub10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
testing10
windows10
tornado10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
swagger10
alertview10
grafana10
alerts10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/mimir
Sep 2022 - Jun 2026
Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 138 reviews, 109 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on upgrading dependencies, specifically prometheus/alertmanager. They made code changes to support future work and incorporated fixes for notifiers, including disabling certain configuration options. The user also contributed to the introduction of new metrics from upstream and configured test cases. Furthermore, they updated the Alertmanager vendor, performed code modernization, and addressed linting errors.
grafana-mimirmulti-tenantprometheusmetricstsdb
grafana/grafana
Dec 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:Backend & Frontend Developer
Backend & Frontend DeveloperContributions:980 reviews, 186 commits, 553 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on implementing features related to alerting, particularly within the Google Chat, Discord, and Slack notification channels. They made changes to both the backend and frontend of the alerting service, including the addition of features to allow customizable messages and image attachments. The user also contributed to the provisioning API for contact points and message templates, which likely involved both backend and frontend aspects for configuration and management. These contributions indicate a focus on developing and improving the user experience of the alerting system.
data-visualizationelasticsearchinfluxdbobservabilitypostgresql
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