Kyle Brandt
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Grant-Valkaria, Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarKyle Brandt is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems and observability tooling, currently shaping Grafana Labs' server-side and Prometheus integrations. Formerly Director of SRE at Stack Overflow, he brings deep operational expertise in monitoring, authentication, and secure backend architecture. An active open-source contributor and co-author of Bosun, Kyle has extended projects like grafana and a WMI Go library with production-focused enhancements for time series parsing, NoData handling, and comprehensive Windows performance counters. Based in Grant-Valkaria, Florida, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on coding across distributed services and monitoring stacks. Known for pragmatic improvements that reduce operational friction, he often surfaces subtle edge cases in telemetry and error handling before they impact users.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
wmi10
system-monitoring10
go10
prometheus10
error-handling10
r9
data-structure9
json9
data-processing9
data-structures9
api8
apim8
api-design8
sql-server7
iis7
Programming languages (14)
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
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 810 reviews, 378 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Grafana project, particularly focusing on the Prometheus data source and server-side expression capabilities. Their work included implementing features to enhance performance, parsing responses, and handling errors related to time series data, as well as adding a new NoData response type. Furthermore, the user made improvements to authentication and security, and the contributions indicate strong expertise in backend system architecture.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
StackExchange/wmi
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
WMI for Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Kyle focused on adding new types related to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to the Go code base. These new types are related to performance data counters for disk, operating system, and IIS web service. They also added types for SQL Server statistics and locks, expanding the scope of the wmi library to include more comprehensive system monitoring capabilities. The changes primarily involve defining data structures (structs) that map to WMI classes.
golangwmi
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