Michel Hollands
Senior Observability Engineer at Roku
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichel Hollands is a Senior Observability Engineer with six years of focused experience in cloud-native monitoring and logging, currently shaping observability at Roku after leading platform and Loki efforts at Grafana Labs and SurrealDB. He combines deep backend and DevOps expertise—contributing upstream to grafana/loki, improving deletion, metrics and Cortex integrations—with practical production experience running Grafana Cloud components. Comfortable across Go, Python and Kubernetes, he has a strong history of building reliable deployment pipelines and scalable services for telemetry and SaaS. Based in South Cambridgeshire, he brings an engineer’s attention to detail from decades-long systems work (including telecom and database projects) and a knack for pragmatic instrumentation that surfaces real operational value.
6 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Ghent, Belgium
Github Skills (11)
lokijs10
go10
devops10
cloki10
prometheus9
yaml8
cicd7
dockers7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
docker7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/loki
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:843 reviews, 84 commits, 584 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Michel primarily focused on improving the Loki project's internal workings. They made various changes, including modifying fields, making server resources publicly available, and updating Cortex to 1.6, 1.8, and the latest version. The user also made changes related to deletion and the supporting code and added metrics, and provided several documentation updates. The user also worked on various integration and configuration changes.
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MichelHollands/loki
Dec 2020 - Nov 2023
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 378 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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