Bogdan Drutu
Principal Engineer at Snowflake
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolBogdan Drutu is a Principal Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade-plus career building observability and tracing systems at scale, currently at Snowflake after senior engineering leadership at Splunk and Google. He co-founded and continues to lead critical open-source initiatives—OpenTelemetry and OpenCensus—serving on governance and technical committees and maintaining core Java libraries and the collector. Known for pragmatic, efficiency-first engineering (summed up by his "lazy software engineer" ethos), he designs low-latency, high-throughput tracing infrastructures and APIs used across cloud ecosystems. Beyond shipping production systems, he has influenced standards like W3C trace-context and authored major tracing APIs, reflecting both deep systems expertise and standards-level impact.
2 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bacalaureat Programming Mathematics Physics, Bacalaureat Programming Mathematics Physics at Colegiul National Tudor VladimirescuBS Computer Scientist, BS Computer Scientist at Politehnica University of Bucharest
English, Romanian
Github Skills (37)
monitoring10
observability10
python10
distributed-tracing10
data-modeling10
opentelemetry-collector10
collector10
api10
sdk10
sql10
slack10
transform10
opentelemetry10
logging10
tempo10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sfc-gh-bdrutu/snowflake-telemetry-python
Mar 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:16 pushes, 10 branches in 5 months
snowflakedb/snowflake-telemetry-python
Feb 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 32 reviews, 15 PRs in 7 months
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