Domenic Delnano
Member Of Technical Staff at Gimlet Labs, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDomenic Delnano is a San Francisco–based Member of Technical Staff with 11 years of experience building observability, infrastructure, and reliable systems across on-prem, AWS, and GCP environments. He has led SRE and observability efforts at scale—designing multi-datacenter metrics platforms, driving logging and compliance work at Twitter, and contributing core eBPF-based observability features to Pixie. A prolific open-source contributor, Domenic has extended tools like Terraformer to new providers and improved testing and protocol parsing in projects such as Dredd and Pixie, demonstrating deep systems and low-level data handling expertise. He pairs hands-on engineering (from TLS tracing and custom binary decoders to incident response) with mentoring and technical leadership, and has also founded a startup, giving him product-minded judgment. Notably, his work spans both the kernel-observability frontier and practical DevOps tooling, bridging gaps between instrumentation, testing, and deployable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, BS Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
English
Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
cloud-computing10
testing10
test-framework10
terraform10
mux10
terraformer10
go10
parsing10
parse10
infrastructure-as-code10
packet-parsing10
unit-test10
devops9
golang9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
pixie-io/pixie
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Instant Kubernetes-Native Application Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:611 reviews, 19 commits, 364 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dom Del Nano's contributions center around enhancing the `pixie-io/pixie` project's back-end functionality, with a focus on the internal workings of the system. These commits added and refined the implementation of a custom `int24_t` type to support decoding 24-bit integers within the `BinaryDecoder`, introduced initial support for the Mux protocol with parsing and stitching capabilities, and added metrics for various conditions. These changes demonstrate a deep understanding of low-level data handling, protocol implementation, and system-level monitoring within the context of the project.
pixieobservabilitymonitoringkubernetes-nativeeks
apiaryio/dredd
Jul 2015 - Aug 2017
Language-agnostic HTTP API Testing Tool
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 120 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Domenic focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the `dredd` project, particularly concerning the integration of Go hooks. They added unit tests to validate the Go hooks functionality, ensuring the correct handling of different scenarios, including installation hints and server process spawning. Additionally, the user added an error message for when Dredd hooks do not modify transactions in test mode, improving the debugging experience for developers.
openapi-validationagnostictest-runnerapi-testingopenapi
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