Tristan Burgess
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Burgess is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, multi-tenant cloud observability systems and datacenter automation. He has deep Go expertise and a track record at Grafana Labs and Oracle delivering metrics/logs ingestion, streaming integrations, and infrastructure-as-code solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Tristan helped grow Grafana’s AWS observability product from hundreds to thousands of enterprise customers, contributed to popular open-source projects like Grafana CloudWatch integrations, and maintains Prometheus-related tooling. He combines hands-on coding with team mentorship, having onboarded and coached engineers into cloud observability and Kubernetes operations. Known for pragmatic system design, he also has a background in telecom and RF telemetry systems, bringing uncommon cross-domain experience to observability and network automation challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Information Technology - Software Development, Associate of Science (A.S.), Information Technology - Software Development at New Hampshire Technical Institute
Github Skills (8)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
go10
grafana10
cloudwatch10
aws10
metric10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Aug 2023 - May 2024
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:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Tristan primarily contributed to the CloudWatch data source integration, focusing on adding and fixing metrics related to AWS services within the Grafana platform. Their work involved modifying the `metrics.go` file to incorporate new metrics for services like Firehose, SageMaker, and Glue. These changes included correcting namespace typos and adding new dimensions and metrics, thus improving the data visualization capabilities for monitoring AWS resources.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
tristanburgess/oo_data_structures_design_specialization
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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