I'm a Software Engineer with a decade of experience in building scalable, reliable and observable software. I have a strong academic background in Computer Science, with specialization in distributed systems. I currently work at Grafana Labs, a monitoring and observability company.

Career Experience

Grafana Labs

2021 — Present

Grafana Labs is a monitoring and observability company known for its open source analytics and visualization tool. Over the last 10 years, Grafana Labs has grown into a complete observability platform including logs, traces, metrics and profiles, incident response management, and much more.

I spent the first three years at Grafana Labs working in the Alerting team, helping build the alerting product, used by both Grafana Labs customers and internal Grafana Labs teams. I was a subject matter expert on the Prometheus Alertmanager, later becoming a maintainer of the open source project. I planned, built and shipped UTF-8 support for the Prometheus Alertmanager, including in Grafana Cloud, to support OpenTelemetry.

I recently joined the Loki team to help build the next generation of Loki - a highly available, horizontally scalable, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.

Cloudflare

2018 — 2021

Cloudflare is one of the biggest networks on the internet providing a wide range of services from content delivery, performance and security. I worked for 3 years in the Firewall team building industry leading L7 (HTTP) Firewall products and services at global scale.

I led the design of the Rulesets API so customers could manage their L7 protections, and contributed to the parser and execution engine that checks traffic in real-time on the edge. I also designed and shipped, collaborating with one other engineer, the Firewall Events API, where customers could query and run analytics against firewall events for their websites.

Education

UCL / MSc (Networked Computer Systems)

2014 — 2015

The Networked Computer Systems is a Masters programme specialising in networks and distributed systems. The 1 year programme covers a wide range of topics such as operating systems, distributed storage systems, consensus algorithms, wireless and radio systems, multimedia codecs, security, and more.

My masters thesis looked at how to enforce software-based fault isolation in web servers such that an exploit of one are of the web server (i.e. parsing HTTP requests) could not be used to gain access to other areas of the web server (i.e. TLS certificates).

I gratuated with Distinction and Deans commendation.

Newcastle University / BSc (Computer Science)

2011 — 2014

Graduated with First-class honors degree.