Conor Broderick
Senior Software Engineer at Tines
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolConor Broderick is a Senior Software Engineer based in Dublin with 11 years' experience building reliable back-end systems and improving developer-facing tooling. He has a strong track record contributing to high-profile open-source monitoring projects in the Prometheus ecosystem—working on snmp_exporter, prometheus, alertmanager and blackbox_exporter—where he focused on metrics hygiene, UI improvements, authentication, and robust notifications. At Tines and previously Web Summit and Robust Perception he’s shipped production services and iterated on observability and configuration workflows. Comfortable across backend, web UI and systems integration, he combines pragmatic engineering with attention to detail—an example being his work to sanitize metric names and expose runtime configs for easier troubleshooting. He holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering from Trinity College Dublin and brings both startup agility and OSS craftsmanship to teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Computer Engineering at Trinity College DublinHighschool High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Highschool High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at The High School Rathgar
English
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go
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prometheus
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Github Skills (28)
timeseries-database10
monitoring10
snmp10
testing10
graph10
configuration-management10
snmpd10
prometheus-exporter10
webui10
go10
prometheus10
notification10
alarmmanager10
graphing10
metric10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus/blackbox_exporter
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Blackbox prober exporter
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 27 PRs, 40 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Conor's commits primarily focused on updating dependencies and incorporating new features into the blackbox_exporter. These changes involved vendoring updates for client_golang and the inclusion of HTTP authentication capabilities. The modifications to the codebase suggest an effort to maintain and extend the exporter's functionality, ensuring it remains up-to-date and supports a broader range of authentication methods.
exporterprometheus-exporterblackbox-exporterblackboxicmp
prometheus/snmp_exporter
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
SNMP Exporter for Prometheus
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 30 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Conor primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the SNMP exporter. Their work included adding a homepage, sanitizing metric names, and exposing the loaded configuration via an endpoint. They also implemented features such as adding descriptions and OIDs to metric help strings. The user also made changes to allow keeping non-accessible objects, inlined the module config, and corrected the metric values.
snmpexporterprometheus-exportermibprometheus
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