Chris Kleinknecht
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Kleinknecht is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with seven years of professional experience building production-grade systems at Google, Uber, Counsyl, and Amazon. He specializes in back-end engineering and distributed tracing/metrics, contributing core tracing primitives and API refactors to the widely used OpenTelemetry Python project and improving metric descriptors and distribution aggregations in OpenCensus. Comfortable working at scale, he combines rigorous type-hinted implementations, documentation, and test coverage to make observability primitives reliable and maintainable. A math and computer science graduate from the University of Florida, he brings a data-driven mindset to system design and a knack for surfacing subtle bugs in aggregation logic that improve long-term signal quality.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (16)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
data-structures10
unit-testing10
api10
sdk10
python10
apidoc10
unit-test10
data-structure10
testing10
debug9
debugging9
typesc8
typescript8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
census-instrumentation/opencensus-python
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
A stats collection and distributed tracing framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 104 commits, 229 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the implementation of metric descriptors and supporting classes, as well as fixes for existing classes. They added ValueDistribution and related classes, including Bucket and Exemplar, to support summary statistics. Furthermore, the user introduced a method for converting stats data models into metrics and fixed distribution aggregation bugs. Their work focused on improving the structure and functionality of the metrics, as well as including test coverage.
tracingobservabilityloggingstatsdistributed-tracing
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python
May 2019 - May 2020
OpenTelemetry Python API and SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 81 commits, 268 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of the OpenTelemetry Python API, focusing on the tracing package. Their work involved defining and implementing core tracing concepts such as `Tracer`, `Span`, and `SpanContext` along with their associated context managers, and methods. They also refactored the tracing API into a new package, added sphinx documentation, and updated type hints. The user's contributions are fundamental to the tracing functionality of the OpenTelemetry Python project.
apicorrelationcontextpythontracecontexttracing
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