Pete Wall
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Wall is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building complex enterprise and feature-rich web and mobile applications, currently focused on Kubernetes monitoring at Grafana Labs. He blends deep engineering expertise—from low-level firmware and C/C++ systems work to cloud-native integrations—with a collaborative, team-first leadership style honed across VMware, Pivotal, and Symantec. Pete has led open-source efforts like VMware’s Marketplace CLI to automate publishing workflows and has delivered immersive social VR and serious-game projects for NASA and the DoD, demonstrating a rare mix of research-driven creativity and production-grade rigor. Based in Rochester, MN, he holds an MCS from the University of Minnesota and is known for championing test automation and developer delight while simplifying complex operational tooling.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.77, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.77 at Bethel UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (155)
ebpf10
grafana10
opentelemetry-collector10
opentelemetry10
monitoring10
charts10
helm10
kubernetes10
observability10
agent10
prometheus10
collector10
logging10
cloud-foundry9
snap9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/k8s-monitoring-helm
Apr 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:208 releases, 529 reviews, 1483 PRs in 3 years 3 months
cf-platform-eng/mrreport
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:32 releases, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year
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