Christian Haudum
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria
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Top SchoolChristian Haudum is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and leading engineering teams at Grafana Labs and Crate.io. He combines deep backend and database expertise—evidenced by contributions to CrateDB and high-volume observability projects like Grafana Tempo and Loki—with hands-on work in cloud-native SaaS, Kubernetes operators, and CI/CD. As a domain lead he has driven product and technical decisions for CrateDB Cloud, integrated cloud marketplaces, and implemented resilient REST APIs and multi-tenant tracing features. Based in Dornbirn, Austria, he blends pragmatic leadership with active open-source involvement, and off the clock he brings the same pattern-thinking to turntables and astronomy.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Media Design, BA, Media Design at FHV - Vorarlberg University of Applied SciencesA-Level, Interior Design, Cabinetry, A-Level, Interior Design, Cabinetry at HTBLA Hallstatt
German, English
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Github Skills (39)
middleware10
datatypes10
back-end-development10
clojure-cli10
cratedb10
distributed-tracing10
databases10
java10
clojure10
javas10
query-parser10
go10
sql10
query-engine10
querying10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/loki
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1478 reviews, 123 commits, 920 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Christian contributed code related to configuring and registering command-line options, and to setting up the index gateway component. They made changes to the code base to export and integrate new functionalities of the bloom filters, which involved adding configurations, handling responses, and integrating with other components. Their commits demonstrate work on both the internal workings and the external interface of the system.
logginglokigrafanaprometheuscloudnative
crate/crate
Mar 2014 - Apr 2019
CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 879 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christian implemented and enhanced core functionalities related to database features and server-side logic within the CrateDB project. Their work focused on incorporating new features within the system by writing and implementing new Java classes which handle table and column data. The commits include the addition of new system information functions and improvements to existing database functions such as the EXTRACT function. They also improved and fixed issues in existing SQL code to improve overall database operability.
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