Staff Platform Engineer — Observability & OpenTelemetry
📍 Remote / Hybrid (Open to Washington) 💼 Platform Engineering • Observability • Developer Enablement
I’m a Staff Platform Engineer specializing in observability infrastructure, OpenTelemetry pipelines, and internal developer tooling that enable reliable telemetry at scale.
I currently own the design and rollout of an OpenTelemetry-based observability platform supporting 100+ distributed services and 200+ engineers. My focus is building durable telemetry ingestion pipelines, collector architectures, and instrumentation frameworks that reduce friction for application teams while improving signal quality, reliability, and long-term platform sustainability.
I enjoy working at the intersection of platform engineering and developer experience — making complex infrastructure invisible while keeping systems observable, scalable, and resilient.
- Designing OpenTelemetry Collector gateway architectures in Kubernetes
- Building vendor-neutral observability platforms (metrics + tracing)
- Creating Java Spring Boot instrumentation libraries for easy onboarding
- Defining telemetry standards (naming, units, attributes, conventions)
- Migrating from proprietary monitoring tools to OpenTelemetry-native stacks
- Enabling developers through documentation, reference implementations, and office hours
2024 – Present
- Own the rollout of OpenTelemetry-based observability infrastructure across enterprise platforms
- Architect OpenTelemetry Collector gateway deployments in Kubernetes to standardize telemetry ingestion
- Design high-throughput pipelines exporting metrics to VictoriaMetrics and traces to Jaeger
- Build internal Java Spring Boot instrumentation libraries enforcing OpenTelemetry semantic conventions (v1.39)
- Define organization-wide telemetry standards for cross-language parity (Java, Python)
- Partner with platform leadership to migrate from Dynatrace to a vendor-neutral observability stack
- Drive adoption through developer enablement, documentation, and hands-on collaboration
2019 – 2024
- Designed and delivered enterprise integration and platform solutions
- Led modernization efforts migrating legacy systems to containerized, cloud-native architectures
- Built internal tooling and automation to improve reliability and observability
- Provided senior technical guidance across multiple engineering teams
Observability & Platform
- OpenTelemetry
- OTel Collector
- Software Observability
- Telemetry Pipelines
- Jaeger
- VictoriaMetrics
- Grafana
Infrastructure & Systems
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Distributed Systems
- Linux
Application Platforms
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
Developer Enablement
- Internal Tooling
- Instrumentation Libraries
- Platform Documentation
- Reference Implementations
- Platform Engineering at scale
- Observability & Telemetry Architecture
- Developer Experience (DevEx)
- Open standards and vendor-neutral tooling
- Building durable infrastructure foundations
I’m open to Staff Platform Engineer, Observability Engineer, and Developer Platform roles — especially with teams building large-scale, cloud-native platforms.
If you’re working on observability, platform infrastructure, or developer tooling, feel free to connect.
Bachelor of Music — University of Texas at Arlington (Technical specialization developed through 20+ years of professional engineering experience)