Anthony Woods
Co-Founder at Grafana Labs
Greater Perth Area Australia
Summary
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RockstarAnthony Woods is a seasoned co-founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native observability and time-series systems, best known for co-founding Grafana Labs and driving its technical vision as CTO. Based in Greater Perth, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to prominent open-source projects like Grafana's Loki and Metrictank—with strong operational DNA from senior roles at companies such as Internap and Visa. He has deep experience improving reliability and concurrency in Go-based systems, enhancing log collection in Kubernetes, and integrating metric stores like KairosDB and InfluxDB. Comfortable moving between product strategy and low-level engineering, he brings a pragmatic focus on testability, performance, and real-world scaling challenges.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (27)
timeseries-database10
kubernetes10
cassandra10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
data-storage10
elasticsearchquery10
promtail10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
kubernetes-pods10
elasticsearch10
logging10
elasticsearch-api10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/metrictank
Mar 2015 - Feb 2020
metrics2.0 based, multi-tenant timeseries store for Graphite and friends.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 346 commits, 235 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Anthony's commits focus on enhancing the `metrictank` project, a time series store. Their primary contribution is the addition of support for writing metrics to the KairosDB, involving the creation of a `metricstore` component and integration with InfluxDB. They also added support for additional configuration items for metric stores. Further enhancements include adding logging capabilities and the addition of org_id as a metric tag.
tenantmulti-tenantgraphitemetricsmonitoring
grafana/loki
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 20 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the project by enhancing the Promtail configuration and improving its integration with Kubernetes. They focused on enabling glob matching for file paths, handling symbolic links correctly, and incorporating container name labels. The user also addressed issues related to file renaming and position tracking, ensuring robust log collection in dynamic environments. Their work significantly improved the flexibility and reliability of Promtail's log processing capabilities within a Kubernetes context.
logginglokigrafanaprometheuscloudnative
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