Software Infrastructure Engineer | System Programmer | Performance Engineer. Obsessed with Observability, Instrumentation, and low-level programming. 🤔 Slow thinker. Open Source Enthusiast. Mentor (CNCF LFX, Google Summer of Code, CommunityBridge, GoBridge). Blogger and speaker. Introverted Human (not Cylon, I guess). 😄 Pronouns: He/Him
🔭 Deep in the trenches of Go runtime and compiler internals, building AST manipulation tools for injecting instrumentation systems. Working on Go instrumentation and profiling at Datadog APM. Keeping a soft spot for profiling while tinkering with Go and its toolchain. 🌱 Exploring engineering leadership, LLM internals, and automating Personal Knowledge Management with Claude Code and MCPs.
- OpenTelemetry Go Compile Instrumentation - Prototype compile-time instrumentation for Go, exploring zero-touch observability
- Datadog Orchestrion - Source-based compile-time instrumentation for Go, enabling deep APM without manual code changes
- Datadog dd-trace-go - Datadog APM tracing client for Go
- Prometheus client_golang - Prometheus instrumentation library for Go applications
Raspberry Pi cluster experiments | Flipper Zero hardware hacking | Gravel cycling adventures
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talk: Unleashing the Go Toolchain
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