Dinesh Gurumurthy
Staff Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDinesh Gurumurthy is a Staff Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-throughput, distributed systems for video and observability platforms. He scaled core video ingestion and delivery at fuboTV to handle multi-gigabit streams and millions of users, and now applies that production-grade mindset at Datadog where he contributes to OpenTelemetry Collector integrations. Proficient in Go, C/C++, Java and a broad toolset spanning Linux, databases and cloud-native tooling, he focuses on performance, reliability and memory-safe integrations. Notably, his open-source work improved Datadog exporter reliability in the widely used OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repo by adding host metadata, log support and fixing data races. He combines systems-level depth with pragmatic product delivery experience from fintech to SaaS, often tackling the hardest scaling and observability problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Electronics and Communication Engineering at National Institute of Technology Warangal
Github Skills (11)
opentelemetry10
datadog10
logging10
go10
metric10
api-design9
api9
kubernetes-pods5
dockers5
kubernetes5
docker5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:177 reviews, 6 commits, 25 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dinesh's primary contribution involves enhancing the Datadog exporter within the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository. They added the gohai payload to host metadata, integrating system information for improved observability. Further contributions include adding logs support, which involved implementing log record transformations and correctly deriving log statuses, and adding container tags for generating metrics. They also made improvements to reduce memory issues related to Datadog connector and fix data races in the code.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
dineshg13/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:10 PRs, 406 pushes, 30 branches in 2 years 8 months
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingcollectoropentelemetry
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