Owen Smallwood
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Saskatchewan, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Smallwood is a software engineer with nine years of practical experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems from backend services to user-facing UIs. Currently on the SRE team at Grafana Labs, he contributes to Grafana Cloud and public dashboard features, including query caching and a public dashboard query API used by a widely adopted observability platform. His background spans data warehousing and analytics on AWS, Laravel/React product work, and real-time interactive development with Unity for VR, demonstrating comfort across languages and domains. Based in Saskatchewan, he pairs a Geological Engineering foundation with a later Computer Science degree, bringing analytical rigor and cross-disciplinary curiosity to engineering problems. Notably, his open-source contributions to grafana/grafana show an attention to both frontend UX and robust backend data fetching and testing.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Geological Engineering, Geological Engineering at University of Saskatchewan
Github Skills (14)
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data-visualization8
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data-visualizations8
apidoc8
back-end-development8
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Programming languages (3)
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:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:424 reviews, 78 commits, 235 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily focused on improving the Grafana platform's query caching and public dashboard functionality. Their contributions included adding cached response indicators, and tests. They also worked on adding and managing public dashboard functionality, including frontend routing, the addition of a "public" tag, and code for sharing configuration. Finally, they implemented the data fetching mechanism for public dashboard panels, integrating with a new public dashboard query API.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
masterSmallwood/OwenSmallwood
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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