Jesse Weaver
Software Engineer, Frontend at Hightouch
Arvada, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Weaver is a customer- and people-focused software engineer with 18 years of experience building full-stack web applications and infrastructure, currently working on frontend engineering at Hightouch. He has blended hands-on development and product leadership—shaping roadmaps and guiding cross-continental teams as a product manager at Grafana and VMware while also contributing backend fixes to high-profile open-source projects like Grafana. Skilled in TypeScript/React, Kubernetes, AWS, and Golang, Jesse has a track record modernizing legacy SaaS codebases, reducing QA churn, and creating local multi-component test stacks. He’s comfortable navigating both UI polish and backend durability—having implemented secure public dashboard exposure and robust remote rendering with retries and version checks. Based in Arvada, Colorado, he pairs academic depth from a CS master’s with practical experience across startups, enterprise, and open-source ecosystems.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
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Github Skills (25)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
go10
api10
backend10
data-visualizations9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
prometheus8
postgrest8
alerts8
alertview8
alertifyjs8
alertdialog8
dashboard8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
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:14 reviews, 15 commits, 16 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on improving the Grafana backend. They addressed issues with dashboard permissions, preventing conflicting configurations. Additionally, they worked on enhancing the rendering service, specifically improving the handling of remote renderers, incorporating version checks and retry mechanisms. The user's contributions also included the implementation of API endpoints for public dashboards, enabling backend query execution.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
pianohacker/qualia
Nov 2014 - Jan 2023
Contributions:168 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
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