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# Karl Johan Grahn
Head of Engineering at Stakater building SRE culture and promoting observability.

## About

Karl Johan Grahn leads engineering teams at Stakater and focuses on Site Reliability Engineering. He builds and maintains infrastructure for both early-stage startups and large enterprises.

He cares about the human and analytical sides of systems, prioritizing incremental improvements and team empowerment. He frequently speaks on technical observability—like standardizing metrics and traces with Python and OpenTelemetry—and the realities of moving from an SRE to a manager.

His software career and studies have taken him around the globe, with time spent in the US, China, Uganda, Australia, Japan, and India.



## Past Sessions

### World Congress 2024 · July 17, 2024
Berlin, Germany
- [Observability and instrumentation via OpenTelemetry](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/422-observability-and) · 30 min