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Myrle Krantz

Go-getter · DISC type d
Senior Director of Engineering at Grafana Labs
📍 United States

Myrle Krantz is the Senior Director of Engineering at Grafana Labs, where she heads Application Observability. A renowned open-source strategist with an MBA and a Computer Science degree from Rice University, she has held numerous leadership roles at The Apache Software Foundation. Colleagues describe her as diligent, reliable, kind, and a calm, reasoned leader.

An American immigrant living in Germany, Myrle is a mother to two daughters. She leads an active life outside of work, enjoying hobbies such as jogging, hiking, swimming, and reading. She lives with her family and their hunting dog in the Voreifel region of Germany.

Unique fact: In a conference bio, she humorously mentions that she also plays the piano badly.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Senior Director of Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
United States
Personality Overview

How Myrle shows up

Fast-Paced
Challenger
Vision Oriented

They can be nudged to make faster decisions by offering what they value. 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 Myrle cares about

Open Source Strategy
Her career is centered around open source, with extensive leadership at The Apache Software Foundation and an MBA thesis on vendor neutrality.
Observability & OpenTelemetry
Leads the Application Observability department at Grafana Labs and actively speaks on panels about operationalizing OpenTelemetry at scale.
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Career

Work history

11-2025
Senior Director of Engineering
Grafana Labs
11-2022 - 10-2025
Director of Engineering
Grafana Labs
12-2020 - 11-2022
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Grafana Labs
5-2019
Committee Member, Diversity And Inclusion Initiative
The Apache Software Foundation
12-2018
PMC member, Apache Community Development
The Apache Software Foundation
In the press

Media appearances

HIRE Learning with Grafana Labs Senior Engineering Manager Myrle Krantz. Featured in Grafana Blog
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Education
2018 - 2020
Executive MBA
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
2018 - 2020
Executive MBA
University of Cologne
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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