Brian Gann
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Titusville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Gann is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years in software-focused roles and a long systems-background stretching back to the mid-1990s, currently building observability features and improving CI/CD at Grafana Labs. He blends full-stack development with DevOps practices—contributing UI fixes, backend memory-leak resolutions, Windows packaging, and CircleCI optimizations to the widely used open-source Grafana project. Prior roles in identity/access engineering at GE and systems administration at SpaceX and Microsoft give him deep operational and security sensibilities that inform his engineering decisions. Holding both a BS and MS in Computer Science from Florida Institute of Technology and based in Titusville, FL, he’s as comfortable shipping production builds and checksums as he is debugging low-level platform issues. An understated strength is his ability to bridge legacy enterprise systems with modern cloud-native tooling, making complex integrations reliably repeatable.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Florida Institute of Technology
Github Skills (29)
github-ci10
docker10
packaging10
msp10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
build-automation10
githubaction-workflow10
javascript9
typescript9
plugin-development9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
react8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Feb 2018 - May 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:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:52 reviews, 38 commits, 74 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian's contributions span both front-end and back-end development, along with DevOps-related tasks. They addressed issues with the user interface, fixing missing icon types and implementing templated URLs in plugin routes. Moreover, the user significantly improved the build process, including optimizing CircleCI builds, generating Windows MSI packages, and integrating SHA256 checksum generation. The user also fixed a memory leak in the MSSQL code.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
grafana/piechart-panel
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:10 releases, 16 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years 9 months
pie-chartchartpluginpanelpie
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