Michael Mandrus
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Mandrus is a Staff Software Engineer with seven years of professional experience, currently leading the Operator Experience squad at Grafana Labs from Boston. He combines full-stack fluency with product-focused engineering—shipping features like a Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant, Secrets Manager, and enterprise documentation that improve operator and end-user workflows. A hands-on backend contributor to the flagship grafana/grafana repo, he’s improved dashboard UX through avatar caching, recent-viewer features, and robust testing. His background at BAE Systems includes leading government research programs, rapid prototyping of end-to-end demos, and embedding user behavior analytics to eliminate workflow bottlenecks. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product, DevOps, and user needs while still diving into code, tests, and deployment automation.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Acton-Boxborough Regional High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, French
Github Skills (9)
caching10
http10
go10
apidoc9
api9
unit-testing9
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Apr 2022 - 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:386 reviews, 81 commits, 265 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Grafana dashboarding functionality, specifically involving the recent viewers list and avatar caching. Their work included refactoring the avatar cache server, adding unit tests for avatar fetching, and integrating custom gravatars. They also utilized the HTTP package status codes and the Wiring library for initializing components.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
grafana/docker-tls-memcached
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
For building a tls-enabled memcached docker image and generating certs
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 6 branches in 1 day
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