Patryk Prus
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolPatryk Prus is a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building everything from embedded device drivers to globally distributed, cloud-native systems using Go, Python, PHP and C/C++. Currently at Grafana Labs, he combines deep systems expertise (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Docker, Linux) with hands-on reliability work and architecture design from prior staff roles at Pindrop and MailChimp. Patryk is an active back-end open-source contributor to high-profile observability projects like Prometheus and Grafana Mimir, improving TSDB WAL replay correctness and metadata handling in multi-tenant ingesters. He’s known for taking ownership of neglected systems—documenting, simplifying, and hardening them—and for operationalizing unified monitoring and alerting across teams. With an academic background in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech, he brings a hardware-to-cloud perspective that surfaces subtle reliability and performance trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (12)
timeseries-database10
tsd10
go10
prometheus10
wal10
back-end-development10
metric10
testing10
data-structure9
observability9
data-structures9
monitoring8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/mimir
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 93 reviews, 12 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Patryk contributed to the Grafana Mimir project, focusing on backend functionalities. Their work included moving and refactoring code related to usage generation and flag category overrides. They also addressed issues related to metric metadata, including fixing label order and implementing metadata limits within the ingester component. Furthermore, the user added tests for these metadata limits, contributing to improved code quality and reliability.
tenantobservabilitygrafanaprometheusstorage
prometheus/prometheus
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 10 PRs, 20 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Patryk primarily focused on enhancements to the Prometheus time-series database (TSDB) component. Their work involved modifying the `head.go` and related files to address issues with duplicate series records within checkpoints during the WAL replay process. The changes included renaming data structures and introducing new logic to manage the lifecycle of series records in the checkpoint and WAL. Furthermore, they integrated new metrics to better track the number of unknown series references encountered during WAL/WBL replay, enhancing monitoring capabilities.
time-series-databaseprometheus-exporterseries-databasealertingdatabase
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