Uchechukwu Obasi
Developer Advocate
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolUchechukwu Obasi is a Developer Advocate and seasoned front-end engineer with eight years of experience building polished UI and developer tooling for cloud-native, observability, and Infrastructure-as-Code ecosystems. Based in Lisbon, he combines deep proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, CSS and modern tools like Next.js, Storybook and Figma with hands-on work shipping documentation sites and search features for prominent CNCF projects such as Grafana, Thanos and KEDA. He has a track record of improving developer UX—implementing responsive layouts, accessible components, and robust site search replacements (e.g., Lunr for Vitess)—and translating complex technical needs into clean interfaces. A fast learner and rigorous owner, Uchechukwu blends product-focused engineering with public-facing advocacy, contributing regularly to open-source projects and community initiatives within the CNCF ecosystem.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
WASC, WASC at Christ the king college, onitshaBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Enugu State University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (32)
search-engine10
hugo10
javascript10
website-development10
storybook10
css10
sass10
responsive-design10
ui-design10
uid10
go10
front-end-development10
search-api10
html10
react10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Dec 2020 - 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:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:250 reviews, 279 commits, 273 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Uchechukwu primarily contributed to the user interface of the Grafana platform. Their work involved fixing UI issues, implementing new UI components, and improving the accessibility of existing ones. The contributions span across various features, including data source settings, alert components, and calendar widgets, indicating a focus on enhancing the user experience and visual aspects of the Grafana application. The user also updated storybook stories to utilize controls and refactored styling to emotion.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
thanos-io/thanos
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 20 commits, 29 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Uchechukwu primarily focused on front-end website development, adding features and enhancing the user interface for the Thanos documentation site. Contributions include implementing search functionality, fixing UI elements like the navbar toggle, and adding versioning to the site. They worked with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, integrating a search library (Docsearch) and improving the overall design and layout of the documentation.
promqlobservabilityprometheusstoragegoogle-cloud-storage
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