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Tom Glenn

Over five months, contributed to the grafana/interactive-tutorials repository by building and modernizing interactive tutorial experiences focused on onboarding, resource management, and alerting workflows. Leveraged TypeScript, HTML, and JSON to deliver multi-step tutorials, automate deployment, and migrate content to a dynamic, maintainable JSON format. Enhanced UI/UX through accessibility improvements, refined guided flows, and content indexing, while integrating new sources and Kubernetes resource tutorials. Streamlined the content model by aligning JSON guides with evolving specifications, reducing maintenance overhead and supporting CRD-driven versioning. The work emphasized configuration management, frontend development, and technical writing to improve reliability, scalability, and developer onboarding efficiency.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

100%Features

Repository Contributions

36Total
Bugs
0
Commits
36
Features
7
Lines of code
5,177
Activity Months5

Work History

January 2026

2 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2026

Month: 2026-01 Overview: Focused on targeted cleanup of the JSON Guides format in grafana/interactive-tutorials to streamline the content model, reduce maintenance overhead, and ensure alignment with the current specification and CRD-driven version handling. The work minimizes future drift between content and schema and supports smoother automated content workflows. Impact: The cleanup reduces content-management complexity, lowers risk of guide parsing/config drift, and enables faster authoring and deployment of tutorials with a clearer governance model.

December 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 monthly summary for grafana/interactive-tutorials. Focused on feature delivery and content modernization to improve onboarding and hands-on learning for resource management. Delivered an expanded interactive tutorials experience by integrating a new play.grafana.org source, migrated tutorials content to JSON for reliability and versioning, and added Kubernetes CPU and memory usage tutorials to enhance practical guidance and navigation. Business value: faster onboarding, consistent content delivery, and clearer paths for learning resource management. Technologies demonstrated: JSON tooling, content indexing, and source integration.

November 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Nov 1, 2025

Month: 2025-11 — Key features delivered: JSON-based Tutorial Content Modernization for grafana/interactive-tutorials, including clear labeling of JSON content and renaming an internal action property to improve clarity. Major bugs fixed: None reported. Overall impact: Enables dynamic tutorial rendering, easier content updates, and clearer internal APIs, increasing maintainability and developer velocity. Accomplishments: Completed JSON migration, enhanced labeling, and standardized action naming. Technologies/skills demonstrated: JSON data modeling, data migration, refactoring for clarity, and commit-driven delivery.

October 2025

14 Commits • 2 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Month 2025-10: Delivered substantial enhancements to Grafana interactive tutorials, including RCA Demo Interactive Tutorial improvements and a new Grafana Alerting Interactive Tutorial. Focused on reliable guidance, accessibility, and onboarding for users. Key outcomes include improved selectors, actions and steps in RCA demo, updated highlighting, added tutorial steps, HTML structure reorganized for accessibility, removal of non-functional items, and a new alerting tutorial guiding users through creating a contact point, configuring email notifications, and building their first alert rule using PromQL.

September 2025

15 Commits • 2 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 performance summary for grafana/interactive-tutorials. Delivered a robust RCA Demo experience and enabled deployment automation to support docs-plugin-based demos. Key work includes frontend scaffolding and a multi-step tutorial flow, plus deployment/setup work to activate the RCA stack. Addressed critical UI and path fixes to improve reliability and developer onboarding. The work strengthens the business value by providing a reusable, interactive RCA demo for customers and a repeatable deployment for internal teams, while demonstrating advanced frontend engineering, deployment automation, and UX polish.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness90.0%
Maintainability90.6%
Architecture82.8%
Performance89.0%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CSSGoHTMLJSONMarkdownSCSSTypeScript

Technical Skills

Configuration ManagementDevOpsDocumentationFront End DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentGo DevelopmentGrafanaHTMLKubernetesTechnical WritingUI/UXUI/UX DevelopmentUI/UX designcontent managementdata formatting

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

grafana/interactive-tutorials

Sep 2025 Jan 2026
5 Months active

Languages Used

GoHTMLCSSSCSSTypeScriptJSONMarkdown

Technical Skills

Configuration ManagementDevOpsDocumentationFront End DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentGo Development