Ryan Geyer
Senior Cloud Integration Engineer
Lompoc, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRyan Geyer is a Senior Cloud Integration Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience across desktop support, IT operations, DevOps, cloud operations, and software engineering, currently helping Grafana Labs package and maintain monitoring metrics and alerting rules. He excels at translating business requirements into scalable, elegant technical solutions and adapts quickly to new technologies and their operational impact. An active open-source contributor, Ryan has improved Kubernetes monitoring, Grafana Agent integrations, and Jsonnet dashboard libraries—work that directly enhances observability for widely used tools. Based in Lompoc, CA, he also runs a long-standing consulting practice supporting small businesses and legacy apps, reflecting a pragmatic mix of startup agility and production-hardened reliability.
15 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
docker10
observability10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
configuration-management10
alertview10
grafana10
alerts10
dockers10
agent10
prometheus10
go10
jsonnet10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/jsonnet-libs
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Grafana Labs' Jsonnet libraries
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:203 reviews, 45 commits, 120 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed significantly to building various Jsonnet libraries for Grafana, focusing on defining dashboards for different monitoring tools. Their work included creating mixins for Docker, Nginx, Home Assistant, and Jenkins, incorporating data visualization elements. The commits involved writing Jsonnet code to fetch and present metrics, along with adjusting configurations and dashboard layouts. Further, the user made adjustments to queries and templates within the dashboards, improving their overall usability.
monorepoobservabilityjsonnetprometheusgrafana
kubernetes-monitoring/kubernetes-mixin
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
A set of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts within the Kubernetes monitoring system. Their work involved modifying dashboard configurations, updating alert queries to include cluster labels, and adjusting the data source settings. Furthermore, the user demonstrated expertise in refining recording rules within the Kubernetes ecosystem, ensuring their compatibility and accuracy. These changes collectively enhanced the monitoring capabilities and the overall operability of the Kubernetes cluster.
grafana-dashboardsalertsdashboardskubernetesgrafana
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