Backend & Infrastructure Engineer (in progress)
Open Source Contributor @ CNCF • Jaeger • OpenTelemetry • Kubernetes
I build high-performance backend systems, contribute to distributed infrastructure, and solve real-world problems in observability, tracing, and cloud-native tech.
- Jaeger Tracing: Improving service performance analytics, test infrastructure, and adaptive sampling
- OpenTelemetry: Fixing bugs and improving OTEL Collector compatibility
- Kubernetes: Contributing to SIG Node, SIG API Machinery, and improving CLI ergonomics
Languages: Go (primary), Python, TypeScript, Rust (learning)
Infra/Observability: Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana
Datastores: Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis
Dev Tools: GitHub Actions, gRPC, NATS, Jaeger
- Migrating Zipkin model to OpenTelemetry
- Improving flaky test detection & storage integration tests
- Upgrading internal tooling (e.g.
golangci-lint)
- Fixing enhancement issues & contributing to core collector features
- Contributing to SIG Node, SIG Testing, and improving CLI experience
Real tools showcasing my backend & observability skills.
tracelytics— Minimal observability dashboard powered by OpenTelemetryflaky-finder— GitHub Action to detect and isolate flaky Go tests from CI history
