Bio

Currently: Helping people with the Prometheus monitoring system by running PromLabs (https://promlabs.com/) and building PromLens (https://promlens.com/). Previously: Freelancing (Prometheus training, consulting, and development) and organizing PromCon (https://promcon.io/). Learning new things. Last ''normal'' job before that: Platforms Engineer at SoundCloud: Created Prometheus, a new monitoring system (https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus). Drove it to global success. Built and ran a cluster scheduling system. Service discovery. Before that: Site Reliability Engineer for Google's production offline storage system. Handling insane amounts of data. In the distant past: Developed IPv6 support for IPVS in the Linux mainline kernel. Even longer ago: Backend/frontend developer and quality assurance at a German startup. And before that: Several previous systems administration and software development side jobs.