Jev Forsberg
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Monument, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJev 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 & PsychologyBachelor's degree, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Colorado CollegeTuring School of Software & Design
Github Skills (16)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Jan 2023 - 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:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1082 reviews, 17 commits, 455 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.
data-visualizationelasticsearchinfluxdbobservabilitypostgresql
baldm0mma/NASA_APOD_vue
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
This project was takehome code challenge. The prompt goes as follows: "Build a single-page application in Vue.js that queries the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day API and displays the day's image. The application should include a way to view each of the current month's pictures (it's okay if the month only has 1 photo so far, for example if it's the first of the month), and a way to return to the current day's picture. Be creative with how you present the collections - think about the experience of the viewer with what they want to view and learn."
Contributions:85 commits, 14 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 10 months
single-page-applicationvue
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