Kevin Yu
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolKevin Yu is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently contributing to Grafana Labs' observability platform. He has deep front-end expertise in React, Redux and modern ES6 tooling, paired with server-side Node.js and Hapi.js experience from large migrations and microservices projects at Elsevier and GoCardless. Kevin has contributed frontend fixes and UI improvements to the widely used open-source Grafana project, improving CloudWatch query handling and test reliability. His background includes embedded C work early in his career, giving him a practical systems perspective that complements his web engineering focus. Based in Greater Vancouver, he blends product-minded engineering with a track record of shipping clean, testable code across enterprise and open-source codebases.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Finance at Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Software Systems, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Software Systems at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (14)
testing-library-react10
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react-testing-library10
typescript10
typescripts10
react-testing10
cloudwatch10
front-end-development10
react10
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data-visualisation9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Mar 2022 - Oct 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:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:258 reviews, 43 commits, 146 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Grafana frontend, specifically within the CloudWatch data source plugin. They fixed a bug in the CloudWatch query builder by validating a refId when generating IDs for CloudWatch queries. The user also cleaned up console warnings in the tests for several components including Azure Monitor, Metric Stat Editor, Query Header, Cloudwatch Dimensions, Annotation Query Editor, SQL Group By, Metrics Query Editor, and SQL Builder Editor. They also added labels for Metric Query type queries and updated to experimental UI components.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
grafana/grafana-aws-sdk-react
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:46 reviews, 55 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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