Chris Harbro
Senior Observability Architect at Grafana Labs
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarChris Harbro is an Observability Architect based in Austin, Texas, with three years of hands-on experience driving observability at scale across Grafana Labs and prior enterprise support roles. He advises customers on observability maturity, solves complex distributed-systems architecture challenges, and accelerates adoption of the Grafana stack (LGTM) through tailored enablement and roadmapping. Previously he escalated and resolved advanced incidents as a Support Engineer and honed enterprise Jira datacenter and Linux systems expertise at Atlassian and SecureLink. Known for rapid progression and on-call reliability early in his career, he combines customer-facing empathy with deep operational knowledge of Prometheus, Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry. While relatively early in tenure, he brings a pragmatic blend of technical troubleshooting and strategic planning that helps teams translate telemetry into business value.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (29)
monitoring10
observability10
dashboard10
postgresql10
slack-integration10
mysql10
grafana10
analytics10
telegram10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
influxdb10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chrisharbro/pov-sim
Apr 2025 - May 2025
Contributions:14 pushes in 9 days
grafana-cold-storage/oncall
Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
Developer-friendly incident response with brilliant Slack integration
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 branches, 2 comments in 8 months
incident-responseslack-integrationalertalertingoncall
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