Jon Gyllenswärd
VP Of Engineering at Waitwhile
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolJon Gyllenswärd is a seasoned engineering leader and VP of Engineering based in Stockholm with 25+ years in software and two decades of leadership shaping scalable, secure platforms. He has led engineering and security organizations through hyperscale growth at Grafana Labs and Funnel, building 24/7 security ops, enterprise-ready products, cloud partnerships, and high-performing distributed teams. Comfortable both as a hands-on architect and an executive, Jon blends deep backend experience (including contributions to the popular open-source Grafana project around dashboard import/provisioning and LDAP failover) with strong people and operational skills. He repeatedly drives pragmatic improvements in delivery, reliability, and developer empowerment while keeping security and customer needs central. Notably, he has scaled teams across regions and industries—from global shipping workflows to observability tooling—demonstrating an ability to translate complex technical challenges into reliable, business-facing outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree informatics computer science, Bachelor's degree informatics computer science at Mälardalen University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
go10
api10
ldap9
sql-database8
data-integration8
databases8
iis6
nhibernate6
repository-pattern6
design-patterns6
asp-net6
logstash6
data-access-layer6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
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:5 reviews, 27 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jon contributed to the back-end functionality of the Grafana platform, focusing on improvements to dashboard import and provisioning. They added features to include `dashboardId` and `slug` in the response after a dashboard import and modified the dashboard service to correctly handle provisioned dashboards. Additionally, they made changes to support the LDAP authentication service, specifically focusing on improvements to multi-server failover strategies. These modifications enhance the platform's data visualization capabilities and integration with external systems.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
grafana/security
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 PRs, 1 push in 6 days
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