Stephanie Hingtgen
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Leadville, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolStephanie Hingtgen is a Principal Software Engineer with eight years of experience building resilient backend systems, currently leading backend development at Grafana Labs from her base in Leadville, Colorado. She progressed through engineering levels at Grafana after earlier roles at Comcast, demonstrating rapid technical growth and ownership of core platform features. Her contributions to the widely used open-source Grafana project include improving datasource health checks, creation events, and secure SOCKS proxying—work that touches observability and secure data access at scale. Comfortable in production-facing API and infrastructure changes, she blends pragmatic engineering with an eye for reliability and security. Stephanie holds a BS in Computer Science from Iowa State and an MCS from Arizona State, pairing solid academic grounding with hands-on open-source impact.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science - MCS Computer Science, Master of Computer Science - MCS Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (12)
go10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
dashboard9
prometheus8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
go-modules7
data-visualizations7
data-visualisation7
data-visualization7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:330 reviews, 12 commits, 358 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephanie contributed to the Grafana backend, addressing issues with datasource health checks, data source creation events, and the secure socks proxy feature. They modified error codes, added events after data source creation, and worked on features to proxy data source connections through a secure socks proxy. These changes involved modifications to backend API, events, and settings, indicating work on core Grafana functionality.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
grafana/go-mssqldb
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Microsoft SQL server driver written in go language
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 2 PRs in 2 years
golangsql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversqlgo-language
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