Mischa Thompson
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Seattle, Washington, Germany
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Top SchoolMischa Thompson is a Senior Software Engineer with five years of experience building reliable backend systems and observability tooling, currently at Grafana Labs in Seattle. He excels at pragmatic engineering—often reaching for hash tables to simplify complex problems—and has shipped integrations and refactors that improved Redis handling, configuration updates, and Prometheus instrumentation in the popular grafana/agent project. Prior roles at Twitter saw him design spend-control systems and monitoring infrastructure that reduced manual work and improved operational insight, and he has a track record of cost- and latency-saving optimizations from earlier ad-tech work. Mischa blends backend development with DevOps-minded improvements to build maintainable, observable services. He mentors engineers and interns, turning scoped projects into measurable outcomes. A UC Berkeley CS graduate, he brings a bias for measurable impact and thoughtful automation to production systems.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyComputer Science, Computer Science at Berkeley City College
English, German
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Github Skills (14)
observability10
go10
redis10
agent9
prometheus9
monitoring9
docker8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
cicd8
dockers8
yaml7
api6
apidoc6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/agent
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Vendor-neutral programmable observability pipelines.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:207 reviews, 22 commits, 123 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mischa primarily contributed to the `grafana/agent` project by enhancing the integration with Redis. They fixed a bug related to connecting to Redis when a password file was specified and added support for a password map file. Further contributions involved refactoring the codebase to improve config handling and to address an issue in operator where configurations were not updating correctly. Additionally, the user made improvements to the build process, including updating the build image versions and also adding prometheus instrumentation.
opentelemetry-collectorlgtmagenttempoobservability
spartan0x117/goto
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Named bookmarks openable in the browser via a CLI
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 month
javascriptbookmarksbrowsercli
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