Erin Schnabel
Senior Technical Staff Member at Red Hat
Village of Wappingers Falls, New York, United States
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Top SchoolErin Schnabel is a senior technical leader and hands-on Java engineer with a career spanning back to 1999, currently serving as a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM after a stint as a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. She has deep expertise in cloud-native Java runtimes—Quarkus, Micrometer, MicroProfile and OpenTelemetry—and is the creator of the Quarkus Micrometer extension and a major reviser of the Quarkus CLI. Erin spent years architecting and leading Liberty/OpenLiberty development, bringing practical experience in modularity, composability, multicore processing, and high-throughput distributed systems, plus low-level z/OS and native/Java interoperability work. She’s an acknowledged area expert in RMI/IIOP and OSGi Declarative Services and contributes actively to open source projects (notably micrometer and quarkus repositories). Beyond code, she has driven cross-organizational strategy and helped launch the Commonhaus Foundation, blending technical craftsmanship with community and organizational leadership. Based in New York, she combines systems-level performance insight with a maker’s curiosity and a history of shipping production-grade developer-facing tools.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS/MS, BS/MS at Case Western Reserve University
English
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Github Skills (22)
monitoring10
observability10
java10
mongodb-database10
javas10
hibernate10
vertx10
mongodb10
micrometer10
metric10
hibernate-orm9
spring-boot9
jaeger9
testing8
maven6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
quarkusio/quarkus
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:676 reviews, 315 commits, 244 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Erin contributed to the integration of Micrometer and MongoDB metrics within the Quarkus framework. Their work included modifying existing code, adding new classes, and creating listeners to capture and report metrics related to connection pools. The user's contributions included enabling Micrometer metrics for the Jaeger and Hibernate-ORM extensions and adding support for JSON and StatsD meter registries. The user also addressed code for edge cases, such as null context handling.
kubernetesquarkusjavareactivecloud-native
micrometer-metrics/micrometer
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
An application observability facade for the most popular observability tools. Think SLF4J, but for observability.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Erin primarily focused on improving the observability of the Micrometer project by addressing issues related to the emission of metrics for specific Hibernate cache regions. They fixed an exception related to retrieving statistics, ensuring metrics were correctly registered. Additionally, the user updated the codebase to handle null values in the long-lived memory pool name, preventing potential errors. They also deprecated legacy Hibernate meter binders, demonstrating an understanding of the project's evolution and best practices.
thinkobservabilityfacadeslf4japplication-metrics
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