Chris Harbro
Observability Architect at Grafana Labs
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Harbro is an Observability Architect based in Austin, Texas, with three years of hands-on experience driving observability at scale across Grafana Labs and prior enterprise support roles. He advises customers on observability maturity, solves complex distributed-systems architecture challenges, and accelerates adoption of the Grafana stack (LGTM) through tailored enablement and roadmapping. Previously he escalated and resolved advanced incidents as a Support Engineer and honed enterprise Jira datacenter and Linux systems expertise at Atlassian and SecureLink. Known for rapid progression and on-call reliability early in his career, he combines customer-facing empathy with deep operational knowledge of Prometheus, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry. While relatively early in tenure, he brings a pragmatic blend of technical troubleshooting and strategic planning that helps teams translate telemetry into business value.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (34)
monitoring10
observability10
visualization10
dashboard10
slack-bot10
slack-integration10
mysql10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
telegram10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
composable10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/oncall
Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
Developer-friendly incident response with brilliant Slack integration
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 branches, 2 comments in 8 months
oncallalertincident-responseoncall-scheduleslack-bot
grafana/grafana
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
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.
Contributions:1 review, 2 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
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