Fayzal Ghantiwala
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFayzal Ghantiwala is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with a background blending production-grade backend engineering and observability at Grafana Labs. He progressed from Senior Engineer to Staff while contributing notable backend work to the flagship grafana and mimir projects—focused on alerting, rule management, multi-tenant long-term storage, TLS/Vault integrations, and query retention logic for Prometheus workloads. Prior roles at Coinbase, Fast, and Bloomberg sharpened his experience across high-throughput financial systems and startup-scale product delivery, with a strong foundation from an MSc in Computing Science (Imperial College) and a mathematics degree. He pairs pragmatic system design with careful testing and DevOps sensibilities, and his open-source contributions have directly improved reliability and security in widely used observability infrastructure.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, First Class (77%), Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, First Class (77%) at The University of ManchesterMaster’s Degree, MSc Computing Science, Master’s Degree, MSc Computing Science at Imperial College LondonGCSEs, GCSEs at Archbishop Temple High SchoolA-Levels, A-Levels at Cardinal Newman College Preston
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
observability10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
testing10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
alertview10
alerts10
go10
prometheus10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
alarmmanager10
backend10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/mimir
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Fayzal contributed to the Grafana Mimir project by implementing features related to query truncation based on block retention policies and logging of failed query information. They also refactored and cleaned up tests, optimized active group purging, and implemented code cleanup. Furthermore, the user's contributions included adding new read path insights to the tenants dashboard and enhancing the system by implementing the ability to read secrets from Vault for TLS configuration in both the alertmanager and server-side configurations.
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grafana/grafana
Nov 2024 - 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:26 reviews, 24 PRs, 38 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Fayzal primarily contributed to the backend of the Grafana project, specifically focusing on the alerting and rule management functionalities. Their work involved adding authentication checks, implementing authorization, and modifying API endpoints for retrieving and managing alert rules. They also made changes to testing infrastructure to ensure the functionality of implemented features, including the addition of TLS configuration for HA Redis. Furthermore, the user updated existing code, including changes to models and API definitions, to support recent feature additions and maintain code integrity.
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