Leonard Gram
Tech Lead Grafana Enterprise at Grafana Labs
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolLeonard Gram is a seasoned full-stack engineer and tech lead with 15 years’ experience bridging backend development and systems operations, currently leading Grafana Enterprise from Stockholm. He combines deep expertise in Go, Java, Linux, Docker and AWS with a strong DevOps focus—driving automation of builds, Docker images and enterprise deployment pipelines for the widely used open-source Grafana platform. Previously he scaled and hardened cloud infrastructure and monitoring at Mojang, where he led SRE work for Minecraft Realms and introduced real-time operational tooling. Leonard is as comfortable refactoring CI/CD and packaging scripts as he is designing autoscaling backend services, and he often operates at the “thin line” between development and production. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic improvements that reduce toil—examples include streamlining image builds, eliminating unnecessary chowns, and automating enterprise releases.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Vocational Education, Software Development using Java, Advanced Vocational Education, Software Development using Java at C3L
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (16)
bash10
docker10
grafana10
aws10
containerization10
rpm10
dockers10
build-automation10
cicd10
debian10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
tomcat6
garbage-collection6
java6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana-docker
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Grafana docker container
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 27 PRs, 39 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Leonard focused on improving the Grafana Docker image, addressing permission issues, and streamlining the build process. They removed unnecessary `chown` operations and refactored the AWS credentials setup, enhancing security and maintainability. The user also updated build scripts to build Grafana with the latest changes. Furthermore, they introduced features for building with specific versions and addressed issues with image layers and tag management.
dockergrafanadocker-container
grafana/grafana
Jan 2018 - 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:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:13 releases, 199 reviews, 484 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Leonard primarily focused on automating and improving the build and deployment processes for the Grafana project. Their contributions include modifications to the build scripts, Docker configurations, and deployment pipelines. A significant portion of the commits involved the creation and modification of scripts for building and deploying the application, including setting up enterprise builds, managing RPM and Debian repository updates, and automating docker image pushes. They also added support for deploying enterprise builds.
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