Paul Coghlan
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Coghlan is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Greater Cambridge area with over a decade of experience building backend and cloud systems for companies from startups to enterprise teams. He brings a pragmatic, empathetic engineering style honed across roles at Grafana Labs, Elastic, and prior lead roles in product-focused teams, blending hands-on coding with technical leadership. Comfortable across Java, cloud-native platforms and client-side development, he has repeatedly stepped into lead and principal positions to ship resilient services and mentor peers. His career shows a steady progression from early embedded and Java work to shaping cloud offerings, and he pairs Cambridge-trained analytical thinking with a collaborator-first approach to solve complex systems problems.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MA, MA at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (25)
search-engine10
slack-integration10
grafana10
java10
telegram10
slack10
elasticsearch10
incident-response10
rest9
restful9
ionic-framework6
visualizations6
angularjs6
elastic5
kibana5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
paulcoghlan/hugo-theme-hello-friend
Nov 2022 - Jan 2026
Pretty basic theme for Hugo that covers all of the essentials. All you have to do is start typing!
Contributions:1 PR, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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paulcoghlan/dotfiles
Sep 2021 - Apr 2026
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch, 9 issues in 4 years 7 months
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