Elliot Kirk
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElliot Kirk is a senior full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade web applications and observability tooling, currently shaping frontend visualizations and an SDK for Grafana’s Faro project. He has led technical deliveries at C3 AI—mentoring teams, designing large-scale data models and ETL pipelines, and driving AI-enabled solutions that delivered multimillion-dollar savings for Fortune 500 customers. A contributor to Project Jupyter, Elliot has hands-on front-end experience improving JupyterLab’s UI and theming, reflecting a keen eye for UX details that complement his backend and data-integration skills. Based in Reno, he combines pragmatic engineering with cross-functional communication, from executive demos to deep technical design, and has shipped embedded IoT and API work as a startup co-founder. Notably, his career blends observability, large-scale data engineering, and UI polish—skills that help turn complex telemetry and data into clear, actionable interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (5)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
jupyterlab10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jupyterlab/jupyterlab
Jun 2016 - May 2017
JupyterLab computational environment.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 34 PRs, 108 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Elliot primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and visual presentation of the JupyterLab environment. Their contributions involved standardizing font styles across the lab and notebook interfaces, updating and adjusting padding, and modifying the menu bar and file browser aesthetics. Furthermore, the user implemented and configured the theme for the output area, while also addressing text alignment issues and adding a new menu item for editor settings.
jupyterlab-extensionjupyterlabjupyter-widgetjupytercomputational
grafana/faro-javascript-bundler-plugins
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
A collection of plugins for various JavaScript bundlers. Used in conjunction with the Faro Web SDK to unlock additional features in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability.
Contributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 95 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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