Willie Engelbrecht
Senior Solutions Architect at ClickHouse
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWillie Engelbrecht is a Senior Solutions Architect based in London with over five years of focused experience architecting observability and analytics solutions across high-performance data platforms. He has driven customer success and technical strategy at Grafana Labs and now ClickHouse, bringing deep practical experience with open source stacks and time-series/analytics tooling. Willie enjoys turning physical measurements into insightful dashboards—combining electronics, 3D printing and Python to prototype novel data sources that spark engaging conversations with customers. His background in pre-sales, training and large-scale deployments (from Hortonworks/Cloudera to modern observability vendors) gives him rare end-to-end fluency from infrastructure to visualization. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectures that balance performance with usability, and he’s known for championing open source as both a technical and cultural approach.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Bachelor of Technology (BTech) at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Afrikaans, English
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Github Skills (33)
monitoring10
observability10
dashboard10
visualization10
mysql10
distributed-tracing10
opentracing10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
composable10
elasticsearch10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/M5StickCPlus
May 2023 - Feb 2024
Repository for the Grafana IoT Bootcamp workshop
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 9 months
wengelbrecht-grafana/EcomEngine
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:18 releases, 1 branch, 13 tags in 24 days
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