Summary
Dan Stadler is a Senior Observability Architect at Grafana Labs with nearly a decade of hands-on experience translating complex technical needs into customer value across pre- and post-sales roles. He partners deeply with strategic accounts to drive platform adoption, architect workstreams that benefit both customers and Grafana, and smooth cross-team collaboration between CSM, SE, PS, and Sales. Previously a top-performing Sales Engineer and Solutions Consultant, he has closed everything from tactical deals to seven-figure enterprise opportunities while also accelerating team ramp through mentoring and extensive internal technical blogging. Dan’s background in software engineering and professional services—dating back to scientific web apps and large-scale data migrations—gives him rare fluency across implementation, product, and customer-facing strategy. He’s based in Portland and is known for turning complex observability challenges into repeatable playbooks that help teams move faster.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ventura High School
Music Theory and History Percussion Performance, Music Theory and History Percussion Performance at Occidental College
MFA Nonprofit Arts Management, MFA Nonprofit Arts Management at Brooklyn College
German