Jacob Valdez
Technical Writer at Grafana Labs
United States
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Top SchoolJacob Valdez is a technical writer with a focus on Linux and observability tooling, currently at Grafana Labs after several years documenting Red Hat Enterprise Linux. He combines a journalism-trained clarity with academic depth—a master’s in Energy Security Studies and hands-on research experience—to explain complex systems and policy interactions around energy transitions. Comfortable working under deadline pressure, Jacob has produced print and multimedia journalism and migrated those storytelling skills into clear, user-focused technical documentation. His background includes diverse roles from the Marines to marketing research, which lend practical discipline and an ability to translate between technical, regulatory, and public audiences.
1 year of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Exchange Communication Journalism and Related Programs, Exchange Communication Journalism and Related Programs at University of HertfordshireMaster's degree Energy Security Studies, Master's degree Energy Security Studies at Masaryk University BrnoBachelor's of Science Political Science and a minor in Journalism and Mass Communications, Bachelor's of Science Political Science and a minor in Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State UniversityInternational Relations and Affairs, International Relations and Affairs at Charles UniversityHigh school diploma, High school diploma at Wichita High School Metro
Github Skills (18)
monitoring10
visualization10
dashboard10
observability10
mysql10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
collector10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
composable10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
grafana/grafana
Oct 2024 - Apr 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.
Contributions:47 reviews, 89 PRs, 105 pushes in 5 months
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
grafana/alloy
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with programmable pipelines
Contributions:7 reviews in 1 day
collectorgrafanalokimonitoringobservability
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