~/portfolio.engineeringLF · UTF-8 · main
$ whoami
Arjun Patel
$ pwd
~/home
$ cat ./role.txt
Staff Software Engineer UTC
$ ls ./signals/
pgp ✓ open-to-work ✓ active ✓
$ git log --oneline -3
c0a0045 Tracebridge Lightweight OpenTelemetry collector with smarter sampling.…
24748ce pg-hot-shards Postgres extension for online resharding without downtime.…
88585e9 incident-replay Internal tool used at $WORK to replay past production incid…
$ status: last commit just now · Go / TypeScript / PostgreSQL / Kubernetes / OpenTelemetry
$git log --oneline ./selected-work// 3 commits
- 411ad6f—Tracebridge— Lightweight OpenTelemetry collector with smarter sampling. Adopted by 30+ engineering teams.↗
- 76c29e2—
- 486014d—incident-replay— Internal tool used at $WORK to replay past production incidents in a safe sandbox.
$ # HEAD → main · clean working tree
On GitHub⌥@arjunbuilds
$ cat ./about.md
Arjun is a Staff Software Engineer who has spent the last decade making large backend systems faster, safer, and more legible to the humans who run them. He has led on platform reliability at two unicorn startups and contributed to several widely-used open-source libraries in the Go ecosystem. His writing and conference talks focus on the operational side of software — incident review, observability, and team cognitive load.
$ # eof
$ stats
| key | value |
|---|---|
| years | 11+ |
$cat ./work-history.txt// 3 entries
| year | title | issuer |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 → Now | Staff Software Engineer[current] | Drift Systems |
| 2018 – 2022 | Senior Backend Engineer | Layer Cake |
| 2014 – 2018 | Software Engineer | Northstar Health |
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PGCON 2024 · 14 MIN
How Tracebridge handles 30k spans/sec
Lightning talk on smarter sampling for OpenTelemetry collectors.
In production at
Drift Systems
Layer Cake
Northstar Health
Postgres
OpenTelemetry
Kubernetes
Vercel