Marco Pracucci, a software engineer at Grafana Labs, is known for his contributions to the Prometheus, Cortex, and Loki teams, with a focus on making Cortex scalable both on-premise and in the cloud. Based in a small town near Rimini, Italy, Marco spends his time between the Cortex and Thanos communities, working on a new storage engine for Cortex that utilizes Prometheus TSDB blocks, which is expected to enhance scalability and reduce operational costs. Despite his busy schedule with a full-time job and two young children, Marco enjoys woodworking in his spare time, recently building a pinball machine, and he values the quality of ingredients in ice cream over specific flavors. Active on Twitter as “pracucci” and open to direct messages, he recently added noise-canceling headphones to his toolkit to maintain productivity in less-than-quiet environments and recommends "Umbrella Academy" as a binge-worthy show despite not typically being a fan of superhero genres.