Jev Forsberg is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and leading front-end teams, currently shaping UI and observability features at Grafana Labs. He blends a background in civic leadership and community programming with technical depth across React/TypeScript, Elixir, Python, GraphQL, and cloud-native stacks, mentoring mid and junior engineers and driving architectural decisions. Notable open-source contributions include meaningful UI enhancements to the widely used Grafana project, improving table rendering, footer calculations, and panel styling. Prior roles span rebuilding mission-critical public-school emergency systems and leading product-focused FE teams at Turbine Labs, reflecting a mix of pragmatic engineering and public-good motivation. Jev’s unusual path from pastoral and community leadership into software gives him distinctive strengths in stakeholder engagement, cross-functional collaboration, and translating complex social requirements into reliable, user-centered systems.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Sociology, Master's degree, Sociology at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology
Bachelor's degree, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Colorado College
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:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:903 reviews, 17 commits, 339 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Jev made significant contributions to the Grafana UI, focusing on the Table panel. They implemented features such as adding row number column options and enhancing the footer calculations. The user also addressed bug fixes related to table rendering and overall styling. Additionally, they contributed to the Stat panel by implementing an option to remove the default background gradient and adding a solid background.
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 7 days
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Jev Forsberg - Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs