Kyle Eckhart
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Eckhart is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating backend and observability systems, currently leading engineering at Grafana Labs. He combines a strong Microsoft-stack background (.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server) from earlier roles with modern cloud-native and DevOps work, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like prometheus-community/yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter and grafana/agent. Kyle focuses on improving maintainability and reliability—refactoring codebases, adding structured logging, and hardening metrics and scraping behavior—to make observability pipelines more predictable at scale. He has moved steadily from hands-on engineering to technical leadership, mentoring teams while preserving a deep commitment to clean, testable code. Based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, he brings practical systems thinking rooted in a Computer Engineering degree from The University of Akron.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at The University of Akron
Github Skills (19)
aws-cloudwatch10
observability10
testing10
configuration-management10
grafana10
prometheus-exporter10
go10
prometheus10
agent10
apidoc9
api9
refactoring9
docker8
kubernetes-pods8
cloki8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/agent
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 22 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the Grafana Agent's infrastructure and backend configuration. Their work includes modifying configuration settings and API endpoints to avoid 404 errors. They also worked on updating metrics in mixin, incorporating caller information for improved logging, and matching tempo.libsonnet files, including those in example k3d with the latest load_balancing configuration. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to changes in the scrape interval and implemented associated testing, solidifying their impact on the project's backend and operational aspects.
opentelemetry-collectorlgtmagenttempoobservability
prometheus-community/yet-another-cloudwatch-exporter
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Prometheus exporter for AWS CloudWatch - Discovers services through AWS tags, gets CloudWatch metrics data and provides them as Prometheus metrics with AWS tags as labels
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:73 reviews, 5 commits, 35 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase of the Prometheus exporter for AWS CloudWatch. They moved key components like regular expressions and string manipulation functions to the package level for better code organization. Furthermore, they implemented structured logging, integrated AWS API counter metrics, and refactored label handling to improve metric consistency. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the exporter's maintainability and performance.
exporterprometheus-exportercost-optimizationamazonamazon-web-services
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