Nathan Marrs
Engineering Manager at Grafana Labs
Marina, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Marrs is an engineering manager and former staff engineer with nine years of experience leading front-end and full-stack initiatives, currently driving the AWS Datasources squad at Grafana Labs. He led Grafana DataViz technical efforts and contributed notable UI features to the flagship grafana/grafana open-source project—improving canvas panel UX, responsive design, and element extensibility. Nathan combines hands-on product shipping with team-building, having introduced CI/CD, testing, and agile practices at prior startups to improve stability and developer velocity. Comfortable across React, TypeScript, GraphQL and microservices, he has a track record of reducing operational costs and improving performance through pragmatic refactors and analytics optimizations. Based in Marina, California, he pairs a master’s in Information Systems with a penchant for turning complex visualization requirements into intuitive, production-ready interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Grandview High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Information Systems at Brigham Young University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
responsive-design9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Oct 2021 - 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:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1498 reviews, 156 commits, 602 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nathan implemented new features for the canvas panel, including the ability to move and resize elements freely. They added responsive design elements, and expanded layer editor UX. They also worked on improving the selection system and implementing a basic button element with API endpoint functionality. Additionally, they focused on adding support for more element types within the panel.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
nmarrs/progress_bar_challenge
Jul 2021 - Oct 2023
A challenge to create a progress bar using React
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactjsreactprogress-barloading-bar
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