Bruno Baptista
SE & Red Hat Principal Engineer
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolBruno Baptista is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building observability and cloud-native Java systems, currently focused on Quarkus at IBM after leading observability efforts at Red Hat. He combines deep backend expertise—particularly in OpenTelemetry, Micrometer, and Quarkus extensions—with practical architecture and delivery experience from roles at Talkdesk and Tomitribe. A co-founder and organizer of JNation, he blends community leadership with frequent public speaking and technical writing about observability and microservices. Notable open-source contributions include improving OpenTelemetry integration in the popular Quarkus framework and Java compatibility fixes for Apache TomEE, demonstrating a pattern of shipping robust instrumentation and test-driven fixes. Based in Coimbra, Portugal, he brings both production-scale system design and a knack for turning tricky telemetry bugs into reliable, maintainable integrations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Universidade de Coimbra
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
jakartaee10
tomee10
opentelemetry10
fault-tolerance10
javas10
microprofile10
back-end-development10
java10
testing9
vertx9
batchfile9
cdi9
script9
batch9
http9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
quarkusio/quarkus
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:848 reviews, 13 commits, 273 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Bruno primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry integration within the Quarkus framework. Their work focused on fixing bugs related to OpenTelemetry instrumentation, specifically resolving a NullPointerException in the OpenTelemetry integration tests and improving the handling of HTTP versions within the tracing instrumentation. The user also upgraded OpenTelemetry dependencies and refactored the OTel extension for improved functionality, and integrated the metrics.
javaquarkuskubernetescloud-nativereactive
apache/tomee
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Apache TomEE
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 11 PRs, 78 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bruno primarily focused on modifying the Apache TomEE project, specifically targeting Java version compatibility. They updated `service.bat` to correctly detect Java versions and adapt to changes introduced after Java 11. The user also worked on the integration of the Failsafe execution manager within the TomEE microprofile webapp and refactored and improved tests related to this functionality. Additional commits addressed code cleanup and project structure reorganization.
tomeenetwork-serverjavajakarta-eemicroprofile
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