Travis Patterson
Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolTravis Patterson is a Principal Engineer based in the Denver area with 15 years of experience designing and scaling high-throughput distributed systems and observability tooling. He has led architecture and product work on cloud-native logging platforms—rearchitecting Loggregator for double the scale at VMware Tanzu—and now drives engineering at Grafana Labs where he contributes to both Grafana and Loki. His hands-on contributions span backend performance optimizations, stream sharding, and log truncation logic, as well as full-stack feature work including TypeScript integrations and datasource plugins. Travis combines low-level systems expertise with product-minded engineering, regularly triaging performance edge cases in production-grade telemetry stacks. An early adopter of open-source collaboration, he’s delivered greenfield Kubernetes logging solutions and maintains a history of building widely used integrations and tooling. He’s equally comfortable authoring core backend systems and shipping front-end integrations that make observability platforms more composable and usable.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Batchelor's of Science Computer Science, Batchelor's of Science Computer Science at The University of New Mexico
Github Skills (27)
data-visualizations10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
typescript10
data-visualisation10
distributed-systems10
alertview10
alerts10
log-parser10
go10
prometheus10
cloki10
typescript-types10
datasources10
logging10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/loki
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:617 reviews, 133 commits, 610 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Travis's commits primarily focused on implementing features and addressing bugs related to log processing and distribution within the Loki project. They modified core functionalities, such as handling log truncation, implementing stream sharding, and adding improvements to the metrics around those operations. They also made changes related to dealing with edge cases or performance issues, indicating involvement in backend logic, optimizations, and system design.
prometheuslokigrafanaloggingcloudnative
grafana/grafana
Jun 2021 - Jan 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:33 reviews, 38 commits, 47 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Travis contributed to the Grafana project by implementing features and addressing bugs across the frontend and backend. Their work involved modifying TypeScript files related to variable handling, adding a new Honeycomb plugin and Prometheus remote client, and integrating with other components. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs related to datasource deletion events and updated the code related to the adaptive logs functionality.
data-visualizationelasticsearchinfluxdbobservabilitypostgresql
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