Adrian Goll
Sr. DevOps Engineer at Backblaze
Zagreb, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrian Goll is a Sr. DevOps Engineer based in Zagreb with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale, highly available infrastructure across CDN, monitoring, and cloud platforms. He’s driven SRE and release engineering efforts at StackPath—helping run 73 edge locations and 100+ Tbps network capacity—and currently applies that operational rigor at Backblaze. Deeply familiar with Prometheus-based monitoring, Adrian contributed to the widely used kube-prometheus project by improving alerting, CI/CD, and test pipelines. His background spans migrations to GCP/GKE, infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, and complex monitoring stacks (OpenTSDB, Bigtable, CockroachDB), reflecting a blend of systems engineering and observability expertise. Known for a dry geeky sense of humor (both his xkcd reference and cheeky shell-forkbomb on GitHub), he pairs pragmatic troubleshooting with long-term automation and reliability improvements.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasium "Matija Mesić"Computer Science, Computer Science at FER
Croatian, English, German
Github Skills (15)
alertdialog10
monitoring10
kubernetes10
alertview10
prometheus10
network-monitoring10
alerts10
jsonnet10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
system-monitoring10
operator10
bash8
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus-operator/kube-prometheus
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Use Prometheus to monitor Kubernetes and applications running on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on improving the alerting pipeline and the underlying infrastructure of the project. Their contributions included renaming alerts, correcting typos within alert definitions, and updating the testing and CI/CD setup. They demonstrated expertise in configuring and maintaining the alerting system by making changes to the alerts' configuration within `kube-prometheus`. Additionally, they modernized the CI/CD process by updating the Travis configuration to the latest versions of relevant tools.
monitorcluster-monitoringalertsdashboardsoperator
goll/opentsdb-bigtable
Apr 2017 - Feb 2019
Docker image that builds OpenTSDB using Bigtable.
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 10 months
bigtabledocker-imagebuildsdockeropentsdb
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