Will Browne
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Leinster, Ireland
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Will Browne is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems and leading teams across observability and commerce platforms. Currently at Grafana Labs, he has improved alerting and secure credential storage in one of the most widely used open-source observability projects, helping safely manage API keys and passwords across multiple notification providers. His background spans startups and large businesses—from architecting microservices and deployment tooling for airline partners to driving revenue-critical advertising platforms at Kijiji—demonstrating strong domain breadth in distributed systems, security-conscious backend design, and operational reliability. A Trinity College Dublin MSc graduate, he combines hands-on coding with engineering leadership, having moved from individual contributor to manager and back to technical staff roles. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and security-minded, often improving developer experience through clearer error messaging and documentation as well as robust implementation.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate Leaving Certificate at Arklow CBSMaster of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
English, French
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Github Skills (14)
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
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alertview10
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alerts10
back-end-development10
security9
apidoc9
api9
prometheus9
data-visualization8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Aug 2020 - 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:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1480 reviews, 591 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Will's contributions primarily focused on enhancing alerting capabilities within the Grafana platform. They implemented secure storage for sensitive settings like API keys and passwords across multiple notification providers (OpsGenie, Sensu, LINE, Pushover, Threema, and Telegram). Their work involved encrypting these sensitive credentials and updating the documentation to reflect the changes. Additionally, they improved error messages for Prometheus alert rules.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
wbrowne/wbrowne.github.com
Oct 2013 - May 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
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