Eric Jacobson
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Jacobson is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable product and infrastructure software, currently leading engineering efforts at Grafana Labs in New York. He progressed through hands-on roles at Wayfair and internships at Red Hat and Bose, bringing strong backend and systems experience to observability-focused products. Comfortable operating at both IC and technical leadership levels, he has a track record of shipping reliable services and mentoring teams through rapid growth and platform transitions. His background combines a Boston University CS degree with an unexpected detour studying anthropology in Copenhagen, hinting at a user-centered, cross-cultural approach to problem solving. Based in New York, he blends production-grade engineering with curiosity about how people and systems interact, which informs pragmatic design decisions in open-source observability tooling.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Anthropology, Anthropology at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Boston University
English, French, Danish
Github Skills (56)
monitoring10
javascript10
observability10
dashboard10
postgresql10
mysql10
windows10
typescript10
linux10
build-system10
grafana10
analytics10
javascript-objects10
go10
prometheus10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
erj826/grafana
Aug 2023 - Apr 2026
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 PR, 25 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
erj826/WEaaS
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:123 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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