Torkel Ödegaard
Co-Founder at Coding Instinct AB
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Torkel Ödegaard is a seasoned open-source entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Grafana Labs with 18 years of experience building observability and analytics tooling. As creator and project lead of Grafana, he runs a core engineering team and contributes across front-end (React/Angular) and back-end (Go) stacks, while also owning Docker-based deployment workflows and rendering integrations. His work has driven Grafana from an internal Graphite dashboard to a widely adopted, composable observability platform, including hands-on contributions like the grafana-image-renderer and grafana-docker tooling. Based in Stockholm, he pairs product-minded architecture with deep engineering craft and regularly gives talks, workshops, and coaching on monitoring, CI/CD and time-series systems. Notably, he originated Grafana while improving internal deployment and monitoring practices at Tradera/Ebay Sweden, turning a side project into a critical open-source product.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree in Computer Science Computer Science, Master's degree in Computer Science Computer Science at Mälardalen University
Github Skills (37)
puppeteer10
javascript10
docker10
expressjs10
scripting10
testing10
drag-and-drop10
typescript10
bash10
ui-design10
dockers10
grids10
cicd10
uid10
script10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana-docker
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
Grafana docker container
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 16 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Torkel primarily focused on maintaining and updating the Docker configuration for the Grafana project. Their work involved modifying `start_container.sh`, `build.sh`, and `run.sh` to update Grafana versions, configure data and log paths, and incorporate plugin installations. They also updated the `push_to_docker_hub.sh` script, demonstrating a strong understanding of building and deploying the Grafana Docker images. This indicates a key role in the project's deployment and build processes.
dockergrafanadocker-container
grafana/grafana
Dec 2013 - 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:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:52 releases, 5252 reviews, 11653 commits in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Torkel primarily focused on front-end development within the Grafana repository. They contributed to user interface enhancements, browser compatibility fixes, and improvements to the responsiveness of various components, including table and dashboard layouts. The user's work involved the development and maintenance of UI components using React, which improves the user experience with features like interactive tooltips, dynamic layouts, and a new menu structure for the application.
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