Patrick Oyarzun
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Oyarzun is a Principal Software Engineer based in Boston with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and leading engineering teams. At Grafana Labs he’s a tech lead on Mimir, contributing refactors, improved test coverage, smoke tests and pragmatic simplifications to a widely used, horizontally scalable Prometheus long-term storage. Fluent in Go, Java and TypeScript, he blends hands-on engineering across distributed systems, REST APIs and mobile backends with Extreme Programming practices and a focus on team effectiveness. A former Pivotal technical lead and engineering manager, he teaches by doing, prioritizes life-first work practices, and excels at removing cruft from large codebases while shipping reliable production improvements.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Github Skills (7)
go10
prometheus10
metric9
observability8
testing8
ci-cd7
tsd7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/mimir
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Grafana Mimir provides horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long-term storage for Prometheus.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:200 reviews, 43 commits, 100 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on refactoring and removing obsolete configuration options within the Grafana Mimir codebase. They removed a specific configuration option, `limits.enforce_metric_name`, and made changes to default chunk streaming. They also made contributions to local limits implementation. They worked on improving test coverage, including the addition of smoke test mode and improved error handling.
tenantobservabilitygrafanaprometheusstorage
Logiraptor/oak
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:63 commits, 47 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
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