About

I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs. I like helping teams find a path through ambiguous problems: making sense of the constraints together, finding a manageable place to start, and building prototypes we can learn from. I also enjoy jumping into existing projects to offer a fresh set of eyes or take on work the team hasn't had bandwidth for.

At Grafana, I built Public Dashboards (making observability data shareable without authentication) and Grafana Bench (a key piece of our acceptance testing and customer experience measurement platform). Bench was used to load test whether Grafana could handle Google's scale when they adopted Grafana for internal monitoring. Both started as prototypes to de-risk larger initiatives.

I'm interested in customer experience—whether that's other developers or external customers—and how AI-assisted development workflows change how teams ship. I care about helping teams ship faster without breaking things and where AI moves software development over the next few years.

Start here

• Waterfall development is back (and it's how I ship with AI) — how research, planning, and context shape my work with agents.
• Reclaim Focus — finishing fewer things completely and leaving room to breathe.

Outside Grafana

Hayden Kotelman and I are building recipinned.com, a recipe management and meal planning app for households and facilities. I handle product and customers while he leads engineering. It's been a fun counterbalance to pure engineering work — talking to users and figuring out what to build matters as much as how to build it.

I'm a board member of the Arctic Bicycle Club and co-founder of the Alaska Developers Alliance. Backcountry skier and cyclist based in Alaska.

For a more detailed background, check out my LinkedIn.