Scott Lepper
Staff Software Engineer at Cribl
Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Lepper is a Staff Software Engineer with over two decades of experience building observability, search, and analytics systems, currently driving system insights and telemetry tooling at Cribl. He combines full-stack expertise in Node.js, React, TypeScript, and Go with a strong open-source pedigree from substantial contributions to Grafana’s front-end and back-end. Scott has repeatedly shipped enterprise integrations and plugin ecosystems—improving CI/CD and extensibility—while earlier work spanned search and user-behavior insights at Voyager Search and large-scale CRM/e-commerce systems. Recently he’s been pioneering LLM integrations and agentic workflows, building Model Context Protocol servers and embedding MCP clients into tools like Grafana to automate SRE and on-call tasks. A Harvard-trained systems engineer based in Grand Rapids, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for turning telemetry into actionable operational intelligence.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Systems Engineering, Master's degree Systems Engineering at Harvard UniversityAssociates Computer Information Systems, Associates Computer Information Systems at Kellogg Community CollegeBachelors Computer Information Systems, Bachelors Computer Information Systems at Ferris State University
Github Skills (15)
react10
typescript-types9
front-end-development9
typescript9
typescripts9
dashboard9
go8
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
alerts5
analytics5
alertview5
alertifyjs5
alertdialog5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
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:245 reviews, 17 commits, 130 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Scott contributed to both the front-end and back-end components of the Grafana platform. Their work included adding a value prop to the datasource, implementing a sticky table footer in the UI, and adding a new footer feature for showing calculations. They also made several code updates, including refactoring and adding new components to the dashboard's UI. Furthermore, their work addressed both front-end and backend functionality.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
voyagersearch/voyager-ui-toolkit
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year
voyagerui-components
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