Grafana Labs hackathon showcase: Doomfana, real-time drone tracking, and a panel plugin for geospatially aware data
Over the past year, Grafana Labs has held regular company-wide hackathons: a week for Grafanistas to unlock their creativity and think outside the box (but often within a panel). During the hackathons, Grafanistas from all over the org joined forces to invent, build, and solve challenging technical problems related to our products, community, and business. In this session, three teams will share demos of their fantastic hackathon projects:
- Can Grafana run Doom? You bet!
- Real-time drone tracking and management, leveraging Grafana Live
- Panel plugin for enriched, geospatially aware data
- Stephanie Closson
Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
- Tabor Henderson
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Tabor Henderson
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Tabor is a software engineer working primarily on helping users understand their own usage of Grafana Cloud, and how to get the most out of it. Tabor's background is in mathematics and data science, though he ultimately found himself most interested in development. Outside of work, Tabor spends most of his free time paragliding, or training for paragliding events.
- David Kim
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
David Kim
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
David is a fledgling software engineer on the Incidents team. Proud dog dad. Overly obsessed about volleyball.
- Nathan Marrs
Tech Lead at Grafana Labs
Nathan Marrs
Tech Lead at Grafana Labs
Nathan is a tech lead on the Data Visualization squad who specializes in React. He is excited to work on building and extending Grafana's data visualization capabilities. Outside of work Nathan enjoys skiing, hiking, and spending quality time with his family and friends.
- Bogdan Matei
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Bogdan Matei
Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Bogdan Matei is a Software Engineer with expertise in observability systems, currently leading the efforts to enhance the creation and editing experience for Grafana dashboards. As a key contributor to Grafana's ecosystem, Bogdan co-developed Grafana Faro, the innovative frontend telemetry platform that simplifies web application instrumentation for developers. He also played a significant role in building Grafana Application Observability, which delivers sophisticated visualization capabilities that seamlessly integrate traces, metrics, and logs for holistic application monitoring. His portfolio extends to contributions on additional significant initiatives including Grafana Unified Alerting and Grafana Scenes.
- Kostas Pelelis
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Kostas Pelelis
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Kostas Pelelis is a Senior Software Engineer on Frontend Observability team at Grafana Labs. Resided on sunny Athens, Greece but currently supplementing vitamin D, in his free time he will either bake pizza with the COVID year old starter or break things to fix inside the house.