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Manoj Acharya

Go-getter · DISC type d
VP, Engineering at Grafana Labs
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Manoj is a successful entrepreneur and engineering leader specializing in Application Performance Monitoring and Observability. He founded Asserts. ai, which was acquired by Grafana Labs where he is now VP of Engineering. Previously, he was instrumental in AppDynamics growth, leading to its $3. 7 billion acquisition by Cisco. Colleagues describe him as "technically solid" and "self-driven".

He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Science and the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, with a background in Computer Science.

Unique fact: Manoj is the co-inventor of ten patents related to business transaction correlation and client request monitoring.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
VP, Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Manoj shows up

Decisive
Challenger
Fast-Paced

They care equally about the product and its potential impact. They focus on objectivity in a pitch and pay little attention to bells and whistles. They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully.

Priorities

Topics Manoj cares about

Open Observability
His professional focus is on democratizing open observability, having built his company, Asserts. ai, on the open Prometheus stack and recently focusing on Prometheus and OTel convergence.
Full Stack Observability
In his current role as VP of Engineering at Grafana Labs, he is actively building the full-stack observability platform on Grafana Cloud, powered by his team's technology.
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Career

Work history

9-2023
VP, Engineering
Grafana Labs
1-2020 - 9-2023
Founder & CEO
Asserts.ai
9-2018 - 9-2019
Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Commercialization & Growth Team
AppDynamics
2-2016 - 8-2018
VP, Engineering
AppDynamics
10-2012 - 1-2016
Sr. Director of Engineering
AppDynamics
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Education
Computer Science
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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