Diego Hurtado
San José, San Jose Province, Costa Rica
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Top SchoolDiego Hurtado is a focused Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable Python automation and observability tooling from San José, Costa Rica. He has led and maintained OpenTelemetry Python contributions—improving trace status handling, B3 header support, and CI performance—bringing real-world distributed tracing expertise to commercial and open-source projects. At Thoughtful AI he translated customer needs into robust Robocorp and Selenium automations, improved legacy architectures, and raised team engineering standards through mentoring and documentation. His background includes designing open-source test frameworks for HPE networking and optimizing pytest workflows to cut CI time roughly in half, showing a mix of systems-level thinking and pragmatic delivery. Colleagues describe him as a “geek you can work with,” blending hands-on technical depth with clear communication across customers and community stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universidad de Costa Rica
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
python10
docker6
random-seed6
fastapi6
multithreading6
dockerfile6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
OpenTelemetry Python API and SDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1645 reviews, 189 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Diego's primary contributions focused on enhancing the OpenTelemetry Python SDK, specifically related to trace status management and B3 header support. They implemented status setting for ended spans, incorporating exception handling and improved API compliance. The user also worked on ensuring correct parent-child relationships between spans, demonstrating proficiency in distributed tracing and SDK API usage.
apicorrelationcontextpythontracecontexttracing
ocelotl/opentelemetry.io
Mar 2023 - Jul 2024
The OpenTelemetry website and documentation
Contributions:52 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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