Albert Llop
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Llop is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Barcelona with 15+ years of experience bridging backend development and SRE to keep web applications performant and reliable. He has led developer-experience and performance initiatives at Harvest—optimizing build times, implementing OpenTelemetry, migrating from bare metal to GCP and Kubernetes, and introducing CD with Argo CD—while owning on-call responsibilities and incident response. A pragmatic engineer with deep MySQL and Sidekiq monitoring expertise, he has contributed meaningful Prometheus exporter work to expose Sidekiq metrics for better operational insight. Now at DuckDuckGo, he continues to blend hands-on coding, infrastructure migrations, and observability to improve both developer velocity and production resilience.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Github Skills (7)
server-side10
monitoring10
prometheus10
sidekiq10
ruby10
rubygems9
testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/prometheus_exporter
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
A framework for collecting and aggregating prometheus metrics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the implementation of Sidekiq metrics and related infrastructure within the Prometheus exporter. They added collectors and instrumentation for Sidekiq queues and processes, exposing metrics related to job processing, queue size, and latency. The user also enhanced existing features by allowing the collection of all queues and introduced SidekiqStats metrics to provide insights into job statuses. These additions involved modifying code across multiple files related to the collector, instrumentation, and server components, resulting in enhancements to monitoring capabilities for Sidekiq within the system.
prometheus-exportercollectingprometheus-metricsprometheusmetrics
harvesthq/paperclip-multiple
Feb 2014 - Apr 2018
Contributions:5 commits in 4 years 2 months
storage-backendfogpaperclipbackendfilesystem
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