Serena K
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSerena K is a pragmatic software engineer with 9 years of experience building backend and full-stack systems across companies like Grafana Labs, Reddit, and Autodesk. Currently on Grafana’s Kubernetes monitoring squad, she brings hands-on expertise in observability and integrations after driving growth-focused self-serve onboarding efforts at the same company. Her background spans platform migrations, ad-serving infrastructure, and frontend work, giving her a strong cross-functional perspective on reliability and user growth. A former behavioral interventionist with a BA in Cognition and Speech Sciences, she pairs technical rigor with an empathetic, servant-leader approach that prioritizes clear communication and team uplift. Serena chooses to over-communicate and be inclusive, and she deliberately blends kindness with directness to move projects forward. Colleagues rely on her to simplify complex systems and mentor others while shipping production-grade solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Cognition and Speech Sciences, Bachelor of Arts - BA Cognition and Speech Sciences at The University of British Columbia
English, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
monitoring10
observability10
dashboard10
visualization10
mysql10
grafana10
alerts10
visualize10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
composable10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sleepyfoodie/kubernetes-mixin-copy
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
A set of Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts for Kubernetes.
Contributions:1 release, 16 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 day
sleepyfoodie/musicplayer
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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