Aditya Prajapati is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on backend and systems work—building the invisible but critical plumbing for distributed systems, developer tooling, and data pipelines using Go, C, and Python. He has a strong open-source track record contributing to Fluent Bit, where he extended OpenTelemetry support for logs, metrics, and traces and implemented protobuf/raw trace handling and OTLP exports. Comfortable taking projects from 0→1, he has built connectors, agent builders, and data pipeline optimizations for companies ranging from startups to large orgs, and recently balanced a full-time role while finishing an MSCS at SJSU. Notably, his work bridges community-facing open-source integrations and production-grade internal services, demonstrating both technical depth and customer-focused thinking.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at San José State University
Fast and Lightweight Logs, Metrics and Traces processor for Linux, BSD, OSX and Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 reviews, 20 commits, 37 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Aditya primarily contributed to the `fluent-bit` project, focusing on OpenTelemetry integration. Their work included adding support for raw and proto traces, OTLP logs export, and integrating with the ctraces library for decoding binary payloads. The user enhanced the system by modifying the input and output plugins, along with associated configuration files, showcasing proficiency in expanding the project's capabilities for logging, metrics, and traces. They made several improvements and fixes to ensure the correct operation of the OpenTelemetry features.
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