David Luna
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Luna is a Principal Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 14 years of experience building front-end and full-stack systems, currently shaping NodeJS and observability efforts at Elastic. He blends hands-on expertise in ES6, TypeScript, Java and Objective-C with backend maintenance and OpenTelemetry compatibility work, including notable refactoring contributions to the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js project. A pragmatic leader and mentor, David has moved between individual contributor and management roles to unblock teams, deliver micro-frontend architectures, and improve CI/CD and developer experience. His background spans fintech and monitoring products where he led front-end architecture, session-replay rewrites, and GDPR-compliant masking engines, showing a knack for turning complex requirements into maintainable platforms. Colleagues describe him as curious, volunteer-driven, and comfortable adopting new languages and platforms such as Kotlin and Swift alongside established stacks.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Maristes ValldemiaMaster en Gestió de les TI Project Management, Master en Gestió de les TI Project Management at Universitat Ramon LlullUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaComputer Science Project Computer Science Semantic Web, Computer Science Project Computer Science Semantic Web at Czech Technical University in PragueMaster's degree Management Information Systems General, Master's degree Management Information Systems General at La Salle BCN
Spanish, Catalan, English
Github Skills (8)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
javascript10
refactoring10
telemetry10
metric10
testing9
api9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:127 reviews, 39 PRs, 162 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on refactoring and updating existing code, specifically replacing `MetricAttributes`, `ResourceAttributes`, and `SpanAttributes` with `Attributes` throughout the codebase. This refactoring effort touched multiple areas including exporter-prometheus, browser-detector, SDK logs, SDK trace base, resources, and SDK metrics. Additionally, the user removed instances of the `Span` constructor and made adjustments to address the use of deprecated code.
apijavascript-clientjavascripttelemetryotel
david-luna/canica
Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 63 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years
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