Niko Smeds
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolNiko Smeds is a Principal Software Engineer based in Vancouver with nine years’ experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure. At Grafana Labs he has driven multi-cloud scaling, prevented IP exhaustion across providers, led incident response, and presented on multi-cluster Prometheus and Kubernetes at industry conferences. He combines hands-on platform-building—VPCs, EKS/GKE/AKS, OpenStack and Ceph deployments—with mentoring and customer-facing troubleshooting for large enterprises. A former instructor and Finnish Rapid Deployment Force NCO, he brings disciplined leadership, on-call calm, and an ability to translate complex networking and security problems into repeatable operational practices.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Finnish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (98)
timeseries-database10
molecule10
terraform10
prometheus-exporter10
monitoring10
prometheus-alertmanager10
monorepo10
tox10
prometheus10
aws-cloudwatch10
aws-tags10
time-series10
terraform-provider10
aws10
cloudwatch10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
webnifico/ansible-haproxy-exporter
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Ansible Role for installing Prometheus HAProxy exporter.
Contributions:1 review, 22 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 5 months
ansible-rolehaproxyprometheus
thesmeds/playground
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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