In my previous post, I wrote about how I approached onboarding after moving from Identity and Access to Synthetic Monitoring and Session Replay. One of the most useful things I did during that onboarding was build a small playground and use it to walk the DEM lifecycle end to end.

At Grafana Labs, we don’t just support internal mobility, we actively encourage it. So here’s some long-overdue news: after five years supporting the Identity and Access team, I’ve moved to lead the Synthetic Monitoring and Session Replay squads.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about personal growth and, in the process, realized something important: there have always been periods in my career where I wasn’t growing. Sometimes I understood it too late. Other times, the lack of growth resulted in stagnation that ultimately harmed my team, my family, and the business.

I talked in the past about the two metrics that quietly drive a huge portion of our professional outcomes: TTA (Time to Awareness) and TTR (Time to Resolution).

It has been five years since I joined Grafana Labs. In my entire career, I have never worked at any company for this long. This is a new situation for me. Turns out, you can stay in the same company, with the same people, for years and still feel fulfillment, joy, and growth.