Anthony Mirabella
Senior Software Development Engineer at OpenTelemetry
Town of Hamburg, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Mirabella is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in backend systems, DevOps, and observability, currently at AWS and a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry Go SDK. He contributes significant improvements to widely used projects such as the OpenTelemetry Collector and Go SDK, focusing on error handling, tracing, dependency management, and Lambda observability. His work blends deep Go expertise with operational rigor—updating core collector components, refining samplers and span APIs, and automating cloud resource cleanup for AWS distributions. With a background bridging architecture, product management, and even legal training (JD), he brings disciplined problem-solving and documentation-first thinking to complex distributed systems. Based in Hamburg, NY, he’s known for practical refactors that reduce allocations and improve maintainability across high-impact open-source telemetry tooling.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer and Information Sciences, BS Computer and Information Sciences at Niagara UniversityJD Law, JD Law at University of Dayton School of Law
Github Skills (27)
tracer10
apidoc10
testing10
aws-lambda10
instrumentation10
cicd10
automation10
go10
api10
sdk10
aws10
opentelemetry10
error-handling10
automations10
trace10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Collection of extensions for OpenTelemetry-Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 476 reviews, 30 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Anthony's commits primarily focus on updating and integrating various instrumentation libraries for the OpenTelemetry project. The user implemented changes to support different web frameworks like Gin-Gonic, Macaron, Echo and Gorilla Mux, by incorporating OpenTelemetry's standards. They also updated the codebase to align with API changes and added net/http and net/httptrace instrumentation. This work demonstrates a strong understanding of tracing and telemetry within Go applications.
golangtracingobservabilityotelextensions
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-lambda
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Create your own Lambda Layer in each OTel language using this starter code. Add the Lambda Layer to your Lambda Function to get tracing with OpenTelemetry.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:162 reviews, 14 commits, 119 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on enhancing the OpenTelemetry Lambda extension. Their contributions include updating collector components, fixing build configurations, and consistently implementing the use of the `zap` logging library for improved observability. The user also added support for additional configuration providers and rearranged the collector startup process. These changes collectively improve the stability, configuration flexibility, and overall lifecycle management of the OpenTelemetry extension within the Lambda environment.
opentelemetrylambda-layeraws-lambdatracingobservability
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