Besart Berisha
Senior Engineering Manager at Grafana Labs
Kosovo
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Top SchoolBesart Berisha is a Senior Engineering Manager with 10 years of experience building and leading front-end teams, currently scaling engineering efforts at Grafana Labs from Kosovo. He started as a frontend developer and progressed through individual contributor roles to management, blending hands-on JavaScript/React expertise with people leadership and delivery ownership. Besart contributes to high-profile open-source projects like Grafana, focusing on UI polish, accessibility and UX improvements that reflect a practical attention to visual consistency and developer ergonomics. He has a track record of mentoring engineers and improving cross-functional collaboration while shipping production-grade interfaces and observability features. Comfortable moving between code and strategy, he brings a pragmatic approach to balancing technical debt, product goals, and team growth. His background in pixel-perfect frontend work and organizing community OSS events signals both craft-focused instincts and community-minded leadership.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Informatics, Mathematics and Informatics at Gjimnazi Sami Frasheri - PrishtineUniversity for Business and Technology
Albanian, English
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Github Skills (15)
uid10
grafana10
scs10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
sc10
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
dashboard8
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
alerts6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
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:5 reviews, 10 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Besart primarily contributed to the Grafana UI, focusing on improving the user interface and experience. Their work involved fixing SCSS variable typos, replacing a link with a button component for better usability in the Logs section, adding alt text to plugin logos for accessibility, and refining meta-information display. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing UI components and overall visual consistency within the Grafana platform.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
besartberisha/dotfiles
Jan 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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