Yuna Verheyden
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Hamont-Achel, Limburg, Belgium
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Top SchoolYuna Verheyden is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently driving backend and observability work at Grafana Labs from Hamont-Achel, Belgium. She combines deep systems engineering with DevOps instincts, having improved logging and metrics for high-volume distributed tracing in the widely used Grafana Tempo project. Her backend work also spans tooling like Rust's docs.rs generator, where she strengthened CLI ergonomics and database interactions for crate management. A KU Leuven alumnus (Cum laude) in Electronics and ICT Engineering, she brings rigorous academic foundations to practical production-facing problems. Colleagues rely on her to make opaque distributed systems more observable and reliable, and she often surfaces subtle improvements—like logfmt adoption and nuanced metric labels—that materially ease operations at scale.
11 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Master of Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology, Cum laude, Master's degree, Master of Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology, Cum laude at KU Leuven
English, Dutch
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Github Skills (19)
command-line-interface10
document-generation10
go10
prometheus10
command-line10
logging10
rust10
documents10
documentation10
metric10
cli10
database-management9
dockers9
grafana9
distributed-tracing9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/tempo
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Grafana Tempo is a high volume, minimal dependency distributed tracing backend.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:510 reviews, 194 commits, 327 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Yuna primarily focused on enhancing the metrics and logging aspects of the Grafana Tempo project, replacing the older glog library with zap and implementing logfmt logging. They also improved the observability of the system by adding metric labels for failed requests. Furthermore, the user made contributions to the project's infrastructure, including fixing the configuration file and updating the Docker setup. The user's contributions were instrumental in improving the project's monitoring capabilities and overall reliability.
opentelemetrytracingtempovolumebackend
rust-lang/docs.rs
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
crates.io documentation generator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 9 PRs, 67 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yuna primarily contributed to the `cratesfyi` documentation generator project by implementing and refining command-line interface (CLI) features. They made improvements to formatting, fixed subcommand nesting issues, and ensured required parameters were enforced. A significant part of their work involved adding and refining database interactions, specifically related to blacklisting and listing crates. Overall, they enhanced the project's functionality and user experience by improving CLI usability and database management capabilities.
rustcrates-iodocumentation-generatorcrates
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