Speaker - Brian Groux

Brian Groux is a Senior Developer working on the observability team at Hootsuite. Brian has an extensive background in product software development, having spent over a decade writing/designing production user facing software before moving into the DevOps space in 2017. At Hootsuite Brian focuses on building and solidify the three pillars of observability; In 2020 Brian was part of team which lead the switch from a 3rd party metrics provider fed by statsd to a Thanos based Prometheus metrics platform with a Grafana frontend and authored an RFC providing a global logging schema for our micro-services. Brian leverages his background in software development to bring both engineering processes and host of customized tooling enabling Hootsuite's efforts.