Colin Stuart
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolColin Stuart is a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago with nine years of experience building reliable back-end systems, currently focused on observability at Grafana Labs. He has advanced Grafana's SSO and API surface by adding endpoints, improving secret redaction, and shipping unit-tested changes that tightened error handling and data consistency. Prior roles at Rapid7 reinforced his production engineering chops across security-adjacent tooling, and his academic background in neuroscience with a CS minor gives him a data-driven, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving. Colin is an active contributor to the high-profile open-source Grafana project, blending pragmatic engineering with attention to developer experience and maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience, Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience, Minor in Computer Science at Boston University
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Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 29 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Colin focused on implementing and improving the SSO settings functionality within the Grafana platform. Their commits include creating a new GET endpoint for SSO settings, incorporating camelCase data handling, and integrating error handling. They also added unit tests and addressed code generation tasks, which significantly improved the functionality. Furthermore, they were involved in modifying the service layer to handle secret redaction and updating existing API files.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
data-mechanics/course-2018-spr-proj-zero
Jan 2018 - Jan 2022
Practice project repository for the Spring 2018 iteration of the Data Mechanics course at Boston University.
Contributions:2 PRs in 4 years
pythonboston-universityspringmechanicsiteration
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