Eric Hsueh is a software engineer with six years of hands-on experience in cloud-native observability and backend systems, currently based in Fremont, California. A UC Irvine computer science graduate, he progressed from intern to SDE II at AWS, contributing to Managed Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry projects. His open-source work includes CI/CD and operator deployment improvements for the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry and Sigv4 authentication and metadata enhancements in the OpenTelemetry Collector contrib repo. Proficient in Python, Java, Go, and C++, he blends backend development with DevOps automation to streamline image management and secure AWS integrations. Outside of engineering he’s an avid basketball player and thrift shopper, a detail that reflects a balance of team play and a knack for finding value.
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry Collector (see ADOT Roadmap at https://github.com/orgs/aws-observability/projects/4)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:59 reviews, 31 commits, 57 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and deployment processes for the AWS OpenTelemetry Collector, particularly concerning the ADOT Operator. They implemented a mirroring tool update, incorporating the use of ghcr.io and the `crane` go package for image management. These changes included adjusting build workflows, integrating allowlists for specific image tags, and setting operator images. The changes also involved the creation of a separate CD workflow for ADOT Operator mirroring and setting the operator image from the go.mod collector dependency.
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:28 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to enhancing the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository by addressing code quality, implementing new features, and improving the CI/CD pipeline. Their work includes refactoring code for HTTP status text handling, and implementing a Sigv4 authentication extension, which demonstrates experience in AWS service integrations. The user also added the ServiceName metadata to be retrieved from task metadata endpoint in the awsecscontainermetricsreceiver, and addressed go.mod and go.sum issues in different commits.
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