Kay Delaney
Full Stack Engineer at Grafana Labs
Ireland
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Kay Delaney is a Full Stack Engineer based in Ireland with seven years of experience building observability and search-driven platforms. Currently contributing at Grafana Labs and Siren, she blends backend integrations and frontend UI work—most notably enhancing Grafana’s Explore experience by adding InfluxDB logs support, a logs start page, and improved date-math parsing. Her background includes cloud engineering at HPE where she implemented core functionality with Ansible, Python, and Go, and earlier R&D work on a heavily customized Elasticsearch/Kibana investigative platform. Comfortable across the stack, she moves between prototyping research features and shipping polished UI components that make complex data explorable. Trained in mathematical sciences at NUI Galway, she brings analytical rigor to debugging and feature design. Peers describe her strength as turning intricate observability and search requirements into pragmatic, user-focused implementations.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematical Science, Hons., Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematical Science, Hons. at National University of Ireland, Galway
Github Skills (9)
uid10
influxdb10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types9
javascript9
typescripts9
typescript9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Jun 2019 - 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:
Back-end Developer & UI Developer
Back-end Developer & UI DeveloperContributions:690 reviews, 609 commits, 1027 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kay's contributions are focused on enhancing the InfluxDB integration within the Grafana platform's Explore feature. They primarily worked on adding support for InfluxDB logs in Explore, implementing a start page for logs, and modifying the query behavior within the logs mode. The user contributed by developing frontend code, including new UI components, and also addressed issues such as enabling accurate data links. Additionally, they fixed an issue with the date math string parsing, showing competence in frontend UI development.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
kaydelaney/react-unicons
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
1000+ vector icons as easy to use React Components
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
reactvector-iconssvgsvg-filesvector
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