Ricky Whitaker
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRicky Whitaker is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with nine years of experience building and operating reliable web systems and observability tooling. He currently contributes to Grafana Labs and brings a strong SRE background from senior roles at Wickfire and Q2ebanking, blending on-call resilience with production engineering. As owner of Undead Coder Society he also designs and hosts web apps for small businesses, demonstrating an entrepreneurial streak and customer-focused delivery. Trained in mathematics and computational sciences at UT Austin, he pairs quantitative thinking with practical engineering to simplify complex systems. Notably, his career path spans hands-on support and development to senior SRE and platform work, giving him end-to-end empathy for software lifecycle and operations.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mathematics with a Specialization in Computational Sciences, B.S., Mathematics with a Specialization in Computational Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (44)
monitoring10
observability10
dashboard10
postgresql10
mysql10
grafana10
analytics10
collector10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
opentelemetry10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
influxdb10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ricky-undeadcoders/grafana
May 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
ricky-undeadcoders/alpine
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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