Diego Parra
Principal Software Engineer(Observability Performance Engineering) at Mercado Libre
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolDiego Parra is a Principal Software Engineer based in Buenos Aires with 13+ years of professional experience and over 15 years working across the JVM ecosystem, specializing in observability, performance engineering, distributed systems and concurrency. He currently leads observability and performance initiatives at Mercado Libre, having previously architected data platforms, real-time pipelines and anti-crawling systems at Despegar. A co-author of Kamon and an active voice in O11y and performance communities, he blends deep functional-programming expertise in Scala/Java with pragmatic production-focused tuning and monitoring. Diego’s background spans building scalable backend services, datalakes and streaming infrastructure (Spark, Flink, Kafka) as well as mentoring and hiring engineering teams. Notably, he combines hands-on troubleshooting of JVM GC and latency issues with platform-level design, enabling teams to ship observable, high-throughput systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Lic. Sistemas de Informacion, Lic. Sistemas de Informacion at University of Buenos Aires
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Github Skills (130)
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instrumentation10
weaver10
monitoring10
javascript10
graphite10
gwt10
ionic10
bytecode10
angular10
jvm10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kamon-io/kamon-datadog
Dec 2016 - Mar 2019
Kamon Datadog Integration
Contributions:3 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
kamondatadog-integrationdatadog
kamon-io/kanela
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:24 releases, 4 reviews, 216 commits in 6 years 10 months
instrumentationagentbytebuddykamonasm
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