Jim Gehrett
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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SeniorJim Gehrett is a seasoned software engineer and leader with over two decades of experience designing and delivering distributed systems, predominantly in Java. He is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he combines hands-on coding with architectural leadership to drive scalable backend platforms. His career spans senior engineering leadership and direct technical contribution at AppDynamics, a founding engineer role at Asserts.ai, and principal positions at Deem and Orbitz, illustrating a proven ability to scale systems from startup to enterprise. Jim has been involved in the full software lifecycle, from inception and design through development, deployment, and operation, ensuring reliable, maintainable solutions. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, he brings a pragmatic, enterprise-grade mindset to cross-functional teams, blending technical depth with a track record of delivering results.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (31)
monitoring10
visualization10
dashboard10
mysql10
postgres10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
composable10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
influxdb10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jgehrett/partner-charts
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 11 branches in 28 days
asserts/helm-charts
Apr 2022 - Nov 2023
Asserts Helm Charts
Contributions:41 reviews, 25 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 7 months
chartscharthelmhelm-chartskubernetes
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