Casie Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasie Chen is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years building scalable backend and observability systems, currently contributing to Grafana Labs. She specializes in back-end and DevOps work—helping optimize autoscaling, metrics queries, and dashboards for large-scale projects like Grafana Mimir, a widely used long-term storage solution for Prometheus. Prior roles at Heap, LightStep, and Rollbar show a consistent focus on reliability, monitoring, and performance engineering across cloud-native stacks. Casie blends production-first engineering with product-minded polish, and she has a history of turning operational insights into concrete tooling improvements. Outside core engineering she has early experience building dashboards and educational tooling, and she playfully insists on the word "arabesque" appearing in outreach as a memorable personal touch.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods9
devops9
metric9
autoscaling9
kubernetes9
observability8
tsd8
promql8
terraform7
jsonnet7
terraformer7
otel6
yaml5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/mimir
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 129 reviews, 109 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Casie primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Grafana Mimir project. Their work included implementing and refining CPU and memory scaling metrics panels, modifying and testing autoscaling components, and updating related dashboards. They also worked on optimizing metrics queries and contributed to build and configuration-related tasks, specifically through adjusting code for new functionality and removing or adjusting legacy configurations. These commits demonstrate involvement in core functionality and operational aspects of the project.
tenantobservabilitygrafanaprometheusstorage
casiec/kiosk
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
chrome-osfullscreen-kioskchromegoogle-chromekiosk
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