Arthur Sens
Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Top SchoolArthur Sens is a Staff Software Engineer based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, with nine years of experience building cloud-native monitoring and observability systems. He specializes in back-end and DevOps engineering, notably contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry to improve interoperability, metrics fidelity, and resource-safe operator deployments. At Grafana Labs he bridges the Prometheus and OpenTelemetry communities, bringing practical improvements such as created-timestamp support, sampling metrics, and safer container security contexts. His work spans from low-level TSDB improvements to Kubernetes-focused operator and network policy changes, showing a rare combination of deep systems knowledge and production-first operational sensibilities. He holds a master's in computer science from UFSC and quietly combines rigorous academic training with hands-on contributions that shape how modern observability stacks interoperate.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Ciência da Computação, Master's degree Ciência da Computação at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (41)
monitoring10
timeseries-database10
kubernetes10
docker10
data-collection10
back-end-development10
testing10
net10
alertdialog10
alertifyjs10
alertview10
alerts10
containerization10
dockers10
security10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gitpod-io/gitpod
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
The developer platform for on-demand cloud development environments to create software faster and more securely.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:363 reviews, 232 commits, 196 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily contributed to the server-side components, including fixing Prometheus metrics endpoints, adding a linter for Go code, and introducing new metrics for login requests and message bus topic reads. They also made changes related to workspace management, specifically altering Prometheus bucket configurations and adjusting metrics related to workspace stop events. The user's work extends into the DevOps realm through modifications to various components and configurations.
automatestheiadev-environmentdisposabledevcontainer
prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 827 reviews, 7 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the Prometheus Operator. Their commits modified the codebase to improve security through the use of read-only file systems and dropped Linux capabilities for containers. Additionally, the user refactored the codebase to generate Prometheus configurations through an interface and updated test cases. The commits also introduced security context settings to various components and optimized the storage of Prometheus/Alertmanager configurations using tmpfs.
clustersoperatorprometheus-operatorkubernetesatop
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