Joel Verezhak
Observability Architect at Grafana Labs
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolJoel Verezhak is an Observability Architect with a PhD in Physics and seven years of experience designing cloud-native telemetry and data-mesh platforms. He couples a deep analytical background from condensed matter research with hands-on engineering—building logging, metrics, and tracing backends for fleets of 10,000+ hosts and standardizing OpenTelemetry across organizations. Joel has driven data-mesh adoption using ClickHouse, OpenMetadata and DataHub to turn telemetry into discoverable, trustworthy data products and recently focuses on helping customers extract maximum value from the Grafana stack. Comfortable at the intersection of systems thinking, security, and product-oriented data engineering, he excels at untangling hidden dependencies and creating scalable, user-centric observability ecosystems. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate academic rigor into pragmatic operational practices that scale in production.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Sawtry CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (125)
high-availability10
grafana10
opentelemetry-collector10
prometheus-exporter10
opentelemetry10
tempo10
operator10
monitoring10
glusterfs10
charts10
kubernetes-operator10
lucky-framework10
graphing10
database10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
verejoel/loki-helm-charts
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
Grafana Loki helm charts
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 1 month
chartsgrafana-lokihelmhelm-chartskubernetes
verejoel/thanos
Mar 2023 - Dec 2024
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Contributions:5 PRs, 28 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 9 months
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