Brandy Smith
Manager, Observability Architecture at Grafana Labs
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandy Smith is a seasoned platform and observability leader who blends hands-on cloud architecture with strategic GTM and enablement experience across companies like Grafana Labs, AWS, Google, and Cisco. She specializes in designing observability stacks (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and cloud-native architectures on AWS and GCP, translating customer needs into scalable solutions and product improvements. As Head of Platform Architecture, she pairs technical depth with customer-facing skills—running workshops, mentoring teams, and shaping cross-functional product feedback loops. Her background spans technical writing, cybersecurity startups, and even founding a small photography business, which gives her a rare combination of communication, operational rigor, and product empathy. Based in Dallas, she is known for evangelizing observability at conferences and turning complex telemetry into actionable business insights.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, AAS at North Central Texas CollegeBachelor of Applied Art and Science - BAAS Organizational Leadership, Bachelor of Applied Art and Science - BAAS Organizational Leadership at East Texas A&M University
English
Github Skills (7)
collector9
opentelemetry-collector7
monitoring7
opentelemetry7
observability6
prometheus6
grafana6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bbrandys/AWS_Workshop
Sep 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
grafana/AWS_Workshop
Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 1 push in 8 months
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