Tom Wilkie’s Path to CTO at Grafana Labs: Startups, Pivots, and Perseverance

Tom Wilkie, the CTO of Grafana Labs, talks to us about his professional journey. We cover how he got into software engineering, his first startup, working as an EM at Google, and what motivated him to go back to an IC role. We talk about his time at Grafana from when they were only 25 people to now when Grafana Labs has more than a thousand employees. Tom’s journey cannot be told without diving deeper into the technical side of things - we discuss observability, distributed systems, and hard technical problems.

Where to find more about Tom and Grafana Labs:

- LinkedIn - https://ww ...