Vicky Lee is a Senior Engineering Manager based in London with 8 years of experience building and scaling remote engineering teams and delivering cloud-native data and observability products. At Grafana Labs she grew and split squads focused on cloud and partner data sources, blending hands-on engineering, product management, and agile coaching to align OSS, commercial partners, and leadership. Her background spans backend services, ETL and data pipelines, test automation, and frontend plugins using Go, TypeScript and React, with early roles shaping full-stack and infrastructure work at GoCardless and Trussle. She contributes to the high-profile Grafana open-source project, improving e2e testing stability and observability test infrastructure. Vicky is also active in diversity and inclusion initiatives and incident leadership, and she routinely pairs strategic planning with individual coaching to help engineers progress. She holds an MEng in Computer Science with AI from the University of York and combines deep technical chops with a knack for turning community-driven requirements into reliable production systems.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (with a year in industry), Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (with a year in industry) at University of York
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:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:65 reviews, 33 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Vicky's commits primarily focus on enhancing the end-to-end (e2e) testing framework within the Grafana repository. They refactor and update existing e2e flows, particularly for data source and dashboard configuration. Their work involves adding new tests, modifying existing ones to align with Grafana's evolving UI, and addressing flakiness issues in the tests. Additionally, they improve the testing infrastructure to pass Cypress options and refine error messages for improved clarity.
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Vicky Lee - Senior Engineering Manager at Grafana Labs