Hedley Simons
Senior Principal Field Engineer at Grafana Labs
Metchosin, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHedley Simons is a Senior Principal Field Engineer at Grafana Labs and a founding member of its Field Engineering team, combining deep observability expertise—especially tracing—with hands-on infrastructure design and customer-facing consulting. He co-architected Grafana’s internal demo environment that powers daily sales and engineering demos across the company, and regularly contributes to product direction, feature reviews, and Gartner Magic Quadrant submissions. With a background spanning SRE, embedded and cloud software, and decades of systems engineering, Hedley bridges low-level engineering rigor and high-level customer enablement. He creates enabling content and tooling, speaks at industry events, and helps hire candidates who fit Grafana’s culture—an engineer who equally values product quality, practical demos, and team growth.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Cybernetics and Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Cybernetics and Computer Science at University of Reading
Github Skills (200)
dashboard10
distributed-tracing10
grafana10
yocto10
opentelemetry10
elasticsearch10
backend10
influxdb10
tempo10
monitoring10
resin10
debian-linux10
audio-device10
breakout10
data-visualization10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/tracing-workshop-breakout
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Breakout sessions for the Introduction to Tracing workshop
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 months
workshoptracingbreakout
grafana/intro-to-mltp
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Introduction to Metrics, Logs, Traces and Profiles session companion code.
Contributions:24 reviews, 38 commits, 143 PRs in 10 months
opentelemetry-collectortracespromqltracingtempo
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