Bob Uva
Software Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarBob Uva is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience based in Portland, Oregon, now exploring open-source languages after announcing retirement from full-time work. He has strong back-end expertise, notably contributing to the high-profile DataDog dd-trace-dotnet project where he added language tags, global configuration for tags, auto-instrumentation for ASP.NET, and Postgres and WCF instrumentation. Comfortable working deep in observability and profiling, he has hands-on experience updating profilers and extending tracer functionality for .NET applications. Bob combines practical production-focused engineering with a curiosity for language and tooling ecosystems, shifting his focus toward community-driven open-source exploration. Colleagues know him for pragmatic solutions that improve visibility and instrumentation in complex distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
net10
asp-net10
configuration-management10
dotnet10
csharp10
tracer10
trace10
apm10
dotnet-core10
asp-net-core9
postgresql9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-dotnet
Oct 2019 - May 2020
.NET Client Library for Datadog APM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 128 commits, 37 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to enhancing the .NET client library for Datadog APM. Their work involved adding language tags to root spans for .NET applications and integrating a configuration option for global tags. Furthermore, they updated the version of the profiler and expanded how the tracer gets the WCF resource string. They also auto-instrumented ASP.NET and added Postgres database instrumentation support.
datadogdotnetapmtracingopentracing
bobuva/fileinfo
Apr 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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