Michael Derynck
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Derynck is a senior software engineer and architect based in Calgary with two decades of software experience and a recent nine-year focus on hands-on engineering and leadership. He currently contributes to Grafana Labs' backend systems and maintains a practical open-source footprint by improving incident-response tooling in the popular grafana/oncall project. Previously he led teams of 5–15 engineers building large-scale analytics and grid-management platforms for electric utilities, combining domain expertise in power systems with web-scale data architectures. As Chief Software Architect and senior architect roles he helped design enterprise analytics platforms, and also established development processes and teams to operationalize those solutions. He balances deep technical work—bug fixes, template and error-handling improvements—with strategic system design, making him equally comfortable in code and architecture discussions. Collected years in specialized utility analytics give him an uncommon blend of industry domain knowledge and production-grade backend engineering.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Calgary
Github Skills (11)
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
alertview10
alerts10
python10
django10
jinja29
celery9
api8
apidoc8
webhooks7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/oncall
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Developer-friendly incident response with brilliant Slack integration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 releases, 319 reviews, 170 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributes to the back-end functionality of the `grafana/oncall` repository, focusing on bug fixes and improvements. Their commits include fixing typos, reverting loading messages, and addressing tasks related to creating contact points, specifically in Python-based scripts within the engine directory. They also made adjustments to the template system, including error handling. These contributions indicate a focus on maintaining and refining core functionalities of the system.
oncallalertincident-responseoncall-scheduleslack-bot
mderynck/starter-web
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Simple starting point website project based upon Initializr
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
initializrstarting-pointjavascriptpointproject-website
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