Akash Suresh
Senior Software Engineer at Splunk
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAkash Suresh is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native monitoring and observability systems, currently at Splunk in Morrisville, NC. He has deep back-end and DevOps expertise, having contributed to SignalFx integrations for Azure, GCP, and AWS and to prominent open-source projects like the OpenTelemetry Collector and Collector Contrib. His work focuses on reliable metric collection, Kubernetes observability, and robustness—adding receivers, scrapers, and e2e tests while fixing edge-case panics and improving host and filesystem metrics. Akash blends product-driven feature development with infrastructure automation, including an in-house tool to semi-automate product documentation surfacing. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Brown and began his career building integrations and dashboards for distributed systems such as etcd. Notably, his open-source contributions reveal a pragmatic attention to test coverage and handling platform-specific details like Azure VM IDs.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, CoimbatoreMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Brown University
English, Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
observability10
data-collection10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
kafka10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
aws-elasticsearch10
kubernetes-pods10
opentelemetry10
collections10
elasticsearch10
metric10
elasticsearch-api10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
signalfx/signalfx-agent
Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
The SignalFx Smart Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 43 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Akash primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the SignalFx Smart Agent, as indicated by the commits focused on adding features, fixing bugs, and improving the agent's functionality. A significant portion of the work involved enhancing monitoring capabilities, specifically for Kafka and Elasticsearch. This included implementing new metrics, configuring JMX monitors, and updating test suites. The user also worked on infrastructure improvements by addressing Azure VM unique ID handling.
agentcollectdintegrationssmart-agentiot
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:145 reviews, 84 commits, 101 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Akash contributed to the implementation of the `k8s_cluster` receiver, which involves monitoring Kubernetes resources and collecting metrics. Their work included adding features for the `k8s_cluster` receiver, specifically focusing on collecting and presenting metrics from pods. Furthermore, the user updated the receiver to incorporate new conventions from the core OpenTelemetry project. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of Kubernetes and the OpenTelemetry collector framework.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
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