Felipe Lopes
Senior Software Engineer at OpenTelemetry
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolFelipe Lopes is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering manager based in São Paulo with 10+ years building scalable platforms, observability stacks, and big data architectures across startups and high-growth companies. He has led hiring and scaled teams from zero to multi-squad tribes, while also contributing hands-on to core telemetry tooling—most recently implementing metric aggregation and Datadog compatibility features in the widely used OpenTelemetry Collector contrib repository. His background spans cloud-native systems, Kafka-driven async architectures, AWS infra-as-code, and monitoring ecosystems (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Tempo), enabling both product-facing features and developer productivity at scale. At companies like Nubank, Alice, Faire and Wolt he combined platform engineering with reliability and observability strategy, often owning design choices that shaped long-lived systems. Felipe pairs deep technical fluency with people leadership, recruiting and mentoring senior engineers to deliver complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Centro Universitário FMU | FIAM-FAAM
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (7)
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datadog10
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testing8
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 15 PRs, 24 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Felipe contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository by implementing and modifying core components, particularly around the metricstransformprocessor and datadogreceiver. The contributions involved adding support for aggregation types (count) and implementing the '/info' and '/stats' endpoints for the datadogreceiver. These changes demonstrate involvement in processing and translating telemetry data, enhancing functionality, and improving compatibility with other systems like Datadog.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
lopes-felipe/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:4 PRs, 88 pushes, 20 branches in 9 months
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