Dieter Plaetinck
Founder at OSS Capital
Limassol, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolDieter Plaetinck is a seasoned software founder and principal engineer with 17 years building high-scale, open source data and backend systems, best known as a founding engineer of Grafana Labs. He has designed and operated production time-series infrastructure (Metrictank, Prometheus/Mimir) that handled tens of millions of datapoints per second, and later led mobile and cloud engineering efforts. An active OSS contributor across projects like Prometheus, Graphite, NSQ and i3status-rust, he blends systems performance work, backend refactors, and pragmatic UX integrations. Now based in Limassol, he focuses on open fitness and health tooling (body.build) and supports OSS founders through OSS Capital, combining product vision with deep technical craft. One less obvious thread: he moves effortlessly between low-level performance tuning and user-facing tooling, from disk-queue benchmarks to workout program builders.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Industrieel Ingenieur Elektronica-ICT optie ICT, Master of Science Industrieel Ingenieur Elektronica-ICT optie ICT at Katholieke Hogeschool 'Sint-Lieven', GentLatijn-Wiskunde (8u), Latijn-Wiskunde (8u) at College Mellemagna cum laude, magna cum laude at Menno Henselmans
Github Skills (72)
timeseries-database10
benchmark10
statsd10
python10
testing10
alertdialog10
command-line-interface10
bash10
message-queue10
refactor10
xwindow10
window-manager10
refactoring10
backend10
monitoring10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus/prometheus
Aug 2015 - Feb 2022
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 16 commits, 12 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Dieter primarily contributed to the `prometheus/prometheus` repository, a time series database and monitoring system. Their work focused on implementing and refining the sparse histogram chunk encoding, including integer types, timestamp handling, and metadata management. Furthermore, they added recoding mechanisms for handling new bucket layouts within existing data chunks. This involved improvements in efficiency and code maintainability.
time-series-databaseprometheus-exporterseries-databasealertingdatabase
graphite-project/graphite-web
Jul 2012 - Jul 2020
A highly scalable real-time graphing system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 4 PRs, 42 comments in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dieter primarily contributed to bug fixes and refactoring within the Graphite-web project, specifically addressing issues in the metrics view and the graphlot component. They also made changes to the JavaScript code, focusing on improving the functionality of the application and fixing delete button functionality. Furthermore, the user worked on making the Graphite application configurable, grouping functions in the code base, and implementing a cleaner way to generate URL arguments.
scalablepythondjangographite-componentsgraphite-web
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