Ara Pulido
Senior Staff Developer Advocate
Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolAra Pulido is a Senior Staff Developer Advocate at Datadog with over a decade of experience building and evangelizing cloud-native monitoring and Kubernetes tooling from Andalusia, Spain. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise with developer relations, having progressed through multiple advocacy and open source leadership roles at Datadog and previously managed Kubernetes and SRE teams at Bitnami and large engineering organizations at Canonical. Ara contributes actively to prominent open-source projects—improving Datadog integrations, adding metrics to core collectors, and enhancing the Datadog scaler in KEDA—with a strong emphasis on testing, reliability, and Kubernetes compatibility. He brings practical systems-level experience (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) and a track record of shipping integration quality via unit and E2E tests. Known for translating complex monitoring and autoscaling problems into polished developer experiences, he also improves UX and documentation in projects like Kubeapps. His background in both management and deep engineering gives him a rare ability to align community, product, and operational needs.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Combined Bs/Ms Computer Science, Combined Bs/Ms Computer Science at Universidad de Granada
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Github Skills (32)
autoscaling10
monitoring10
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
testing10
go-testing10
dockers10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
datadog10
metric10
deploying9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-extras
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 64 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ara contributed to the development and maintenance of the cert-manager integration for Datadog. Their work involved adding new integrations, such as the cert-manager, and modifying existing ones to reflect updated agent signatures. They also implemented error handling and service checks, enhancing the integration's reliability. Furthermore, they focused on the quality of the integration by adding unit tests and end-to-end (E2E) tests to ensure code integrity.
datadog-agentintegrationsagentdatadog
vmware-tanzu/kubeapps
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
A web-based UI for deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes clusters
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:32 commits, 28 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ara contributed to improving the user experience and clarity of the Kubeapps installation process by modifying help messages, documentation, and error messages. They addressed import issues for GKE compatibility and corrected spelling errors in the codebase. The user also focused on updating the codebase to ensure it supported newer Kubernetes versions by fixing version compatibility checks and removing references to deprecated components.
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