Christian Álvarez
Senior Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolChristian Álvarez is a senior software engineer based in Madrid with 15 years building scalable, production-grade services across Python, Go and JavaScript. He has deep experience in microservices, observability and high-throughput systems from roles at New Relic and BBVA, and has contributed backend improvements to the widely used OpenTelemetry Collector. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping code, he blends API and database expertise with pragmatic tool choice and cloud-native deployment experience. Passionate about web technologies, open source and AI, he treats software development as a creative, collaborative craft and continually refines testing and metric processing practices. A detail-oriented engineer, he has hands-on experience correcting subtle metric semantics (monotonic vs non-monotonic sums) in observability pipelines — a sign of his focus on reliability under load.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (11)
opentelemetry10
go10
dockers9
testing9
docker9
configuration-management8
python-multithreading6
python-multiprocessing6
flask-restful6
python6
flask6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Feb 2023 - Oct 2023
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 6 PRs, 33 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on improving the OpenTelemetry Collector's metric processing capabilities, particularly within the `cumulativetodelta` processor. Their contributions included refactoring code, enhancing tests for metric transformations, and correcting handling of monotonic and non-monotonic sums. Additionally, the user added support for `pids_stats` metrics in the dockerstats receiver and removed deprecated code related to CPU percentage calculation. The user made changes to configuration files, added resource attributes and modified existing configuration settings.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
sigilioso/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Feb 2023 - Nov 2023
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:2 PRs, 50 pushes, 8 branches in 9 months
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