Kevin Minehart
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Greater Fayetteville, AR Area United States
Summary
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RockstarKevin Minehart is a Senior Software Engineer based in Spain with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, production-grade systems—primarily in Go. He currently works at Grafana Labs and contributes to high-impact open-source projects, notably strengthening backend consent and OAuth2 flows in ory/hydra, a widely used OpenID Connect and OAuth provider relied on organizations like OpenAI. Kevin blends full-stack sensibilities with a backend focus, having shipped data source and caching improvements in Grafana that improve observability and performance. He’s pragmatic about robustness and developer experience, often tackling pagination, error handling, and API surface issues that quietly prevent outages. Colleagues value him for shipping durable fixes and thoughtful API work that scales across large deployments.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (36)
authorizations10
develop10
api-design10
openid-connect10
grafana10
go10
api10
authorization10
backend10
server10
oauth10
dashboard9
data-visualizations9
dockers9
security9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Mar 2021 - 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:608 reviews, 207 commits, 835 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to adding and modifying features related to data source settings and caching configurations within the Grafana platform. Their work involved implementing a cache configuration tab for data sources, as well as conditionally hiding caching settings for non-backend data sources. The user also made changes related to including URL arguments in dashboard resource requests and updating the base Alpine version in the Dockerfile. These changes indicate the user's involvement in enhancing the data source management and the overall performance and functionality of the platform.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
ory/hydra
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
The only web-scale, fully customizable OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2 Provider in the world. Become an OpenID Connect and OAuth2 Provider over night. Written in Go, cloud native, headless, API-first. Available as a service on Ory Network and for self-hosters. Relied upon by OpenAI and others for web-scale security.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 51 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the Hydra project, focusing on implementing and refining core functionalities related to consent management and authentication flows. Their work involved fixing bugs, enhancing error handling within the consent process, and ensuring robustness in OAuth2 flows. The user also made changes related to API pagination and fixing pagination headers. These contributions demonstrate their involvement in the core logic and API development of the authentication and authorization service.
hardware-securityany-languagefederationoauth2-serveriam
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