Hugo Oshiro
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolHugo Oshiro is a Senior Software Engineer in Berlin with 10 years of experience building high-load web applications and resilient backend systems. He currently leads backend development for NordVPN’s threat protection, delivering new services and migrating workloads to a containerized Kubernetes architecture using Go, Cassandra, MySQL and Kafka. His background spans full-stack work—from microfrontend GraphQL systems at N26 to Node/React services and platform tooling—demonstrating comfort across frontend and backend boundaries. Hugo is an active contributor to Grafana, improving plugin management and CLI robustness, reflecting a strong interest in observability and production tooling. Unusually, he pairs a Computer Science degree with a Mechanical Engineering background and early embedded/C research work, which feeds a pragmatic, performance-oriented approach to systems design.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (30)
plugin-development10
grafana10
go10
front-end-development10
frontend-development10
go-module9
back-end-development9
typescript39
go-modules9
typescript29
typescript9
typescript-types9
react9
backend9
typescripts9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 109 PRs, 249 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily contributed to the Grafana project by addressing issues related to plugin management and the user interface. Their work involved modifications to the Grafana CLI, specifically improving error handling and version validation during plugin installation. Additionally, they made changes to various components and pages, enhancing user experience and functionality. These changes indicate contributions across both backend and frontend components.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
oshirohugo/utils-scripts
Dec 2015 - Jul 2023
Useful and not so useful scripts
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 8 months
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