Joe Blubaugh
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Singapore
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Top SchoolJoe Blubaugh is a Principal Software Engineer with 12+ years building high-volume backend services, distributed data systems, and mobile SDKs, currently leading the Grafana SLO team from concept to customer in under nine months. He combines hands-on architecture, on-call reliability, and people leadership—growing teams, setting technical direction, and shipping pragmatic, well-tested systems at scale. Experienced across Go, Scala, Java, iOS and Android, he has implemented complex RPC interfaces, image-processing pipelines, and developer-friendly platform APIs. A pragmatic API and protocol designer, he emphasizes platform-conforming ergonomics, frequent code review, and complete testing to reduce developer and user friction. Joe is an active open-source contributor to prominent observability projects like Grafana and Prometheus Alertmanager, and brings a track record of cost-efficient data storage and lifecycle tooling from his work at Lightstep. Based in Singapore, he’s drawn to early-stage ventures that focus on measurable customer impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
EECS, EECS at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Purdue University
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Github Skills (33)
go-language10
api-design10
testing10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
alertview10
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twitter-api10
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alarmmanager10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Mar 2022 - Dec 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 & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:372 reviews, 90 commits, 159 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the back-end codebase, addressing issues related to alert silencing and logging practices. They implemented code for cleaning up expired silences, and made improvements to log message conventions. They also touched on improving test flakiness and added test-related functionality by adding additional delays in test to mitigate slow execution in CI.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
prometheus/alertmanager
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
Prometheus Alertmanager
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 4 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributes to the `silence` package within the Alertmanager project. Their work includes fixing linter warnings and cleaning up unused code, applying code review suggestions, and refactoring. A significant contribution is adding the `benbjohnson/clock` library for mock time implementations, streamlining testing. They also modified the email configuration to use canonical MIME header keys.
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