Kyle Eckhart is a software engineer with over 10 years of experience in the industry. Throughout his career, he has focused heavily on designing and building data ingestion platforms, scalable APIs, creating visibility into systems, and ensuring that "just enough" (automated) processes exist. He currently works for Grafana Labs as a Senior Software Engineer, where he is the tech lead for the Cloud Provider observability team. Outside of his career, he is a father of two boys, a hiker, a mosh pit enthusiast, a board gamer, video gamer, and a yogi.