Gareth Dawson
Software Engineer II at Grafana Labs
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolGareth Dawson is a Software Engineer II at Grafana Labs with five years of hands-on experience building backend systems and data source integrations for a leading open-source observability platform. He progressed from intern to engineer by improving Grafana’s logging and query tooling, contributing backend changes that enhanced type safety, log processing, and LogQL query prettification in the flagship grafana/grafana repo. Based in Manchester, he has shipped integrations for Postgres, MySQL, Yugabyte and Zendesk, helping expand Grafana’s “big tent” ecosystem. A former Northcoders bootcamp graduate who started coding to automate everyday tasks, Gareth brings a practical, automation-first mindset to observability challenges.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development Bootcamp, Software Development Bootcamp at NorthcodersIMI Level 2 Diploma in Vehicle Inspection, IMI Level 2 Diploma in Vehicle Inspection at Preston College
English
Github Skills (13)
lokijs10
go10
grafana10
back-end-development10
cloki10
testing9
type-safety9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
error-handling8
databases8
database8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
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:87 reviews, 73 commits, 155 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Gareth contributed to the Grafana project by primarily working on backend-related tasks, including modifications to data source plugins and core logging functionalities. Their commits involved removing "any" types in testing files, indicating improvements to type safety and code quality, as well as refactoring of code related to log processing. They also worked on features for displaying query size approximations. Furthermore, they also added and refactored code related to the ability to prettify queries for LogQL.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
gwdawson/codewars-kata-solutions
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:251 commits, 140 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.