Meet the Grafana Labs Team: Ed Welch

Grafana Labs introduces Ed Welch, a software engineer working on the Loki project, as part of their team profile series. Based in Rochester, N.Y., Ed is deeply involved in open-source projects, primarily focusing on Loki, and also maintains a personal project related to his home weather station on GitLab. Known online as "slim-bean," a nickname from his grandfather, he tends to avoid social media but does have a Twitter account created to address a grievance with a company. In his leisure time, Ed enjoys playing volleyball, backpacking, walking his dog, and experimenting with home automation. He is enthusiastic about technology, recently acquiring a Raspberry Pi 4 and integrating a Raspberry Pi Zero with his electric Nissan Leaf to monitor and control its charging. Ed prefers using spaces over tabs in coding due to the default settings in most editors.