Stephanie Closson
Commercial Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolStephanie Closson is a Commercial Solutions Engineer with 8 years of professional experience building and scaling observability and web systems, currently at Grafana Labs. She brings a strong blend of pre- and post-sales technical enablement and hands-on engineering, having moved from core plugin and CI/CD development into customer-facing solutions work. Her contributions to the widely used Grafana open-source project include tooling and CI improvements for plugin build and release automation, reflecting deep DevOps and release engineering expertise. Prior roles span senior technical analyst work in mining operations—where she architected monitoring, deployment, and predictive maintenance visualizations—and web and embedded software development across several industries. Comfortable across languages and tooling (Go, Python, JS, Ansible, CircleCI), she has a track record of mentoring teams and translating complex technical problems into reliable production systems. Based in Ontario, Canada, she pairs a practical engineering mindset with an interest in open-source ecosystems and developer tooling improvements that quietly boost operational reliability.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at The University of Lethbridge
Japanese
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Github Skills (11)
automation10
github-ci10
automations10
docker10
grafana10
githubaction-workflow10
dockers10
cicd10
go9
bash8
testing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Mar 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:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 116 commits, 90 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Stephanie's commits primarily focus on improving the Grafana toolkit and the CI/CD pipeline for building and releasing Grafana plugins. They implemented a GitHub release utility, optimized the plugin CI Docker image, and addressed issues related to package deprecation. The user also worked on configuring and automating the build process within the CircleCI environment, incorporating tooling like `grabpl` for deployments.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
grafana/plugin-ui
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
Components and utilities for Grafana plugins
Contributions:3 reviews, 62 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 8 months
reactgrafanagrafana-pluginsreact-components
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