George Dietrich
Senior Software Engineer at Fieldguide
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Dietrich is a senior software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building backend systems, devops automation, and platform migrations. He is a Crystal Lang core team member and creator of the Athena Framework, blending language-level development with practical engineering for production systems. At JazzHR he led platform improvements, Kubernetes migrations, and data-intensive reporting built on PostgreSQL and Kafka, later taking on staff-level responsibilities around Terraform, automation, and security. His open-source footprint includes contributions to the Crystal compiler and the widely used OpenTelemetry PHP library, where he implemented tracing features and hardened security with unit tests. Based in Pennsylvania, he combines deep language design work with pragmatic CI/CD and QA automation skills, often improving developer productivity and reliability in subtle but high-impact ways. Colleagues describe him as a team-focused mentor who drives technical planning and consistently turns complex requirements into maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Internet Information Systems Computer Science, Master's Internet Information Systems Computer Science at Robert Morris UniversityStudy Abroad - Berlin Germany Business, Study Abroad - Berlin Germany Business at Council on International Educational Exchange
English
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Github Skills (42)
github-ci10
pytest10
crystal-lang10
tracer10
python10
testing10
cicd10
automation10
php10
opentelemetry10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
trace10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
veelenga/awesome-crystal
Dec 2018 - Dec 2021
:gem: A collection of awesome Crystal libraries, tools, frameworks and software
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:108 reviews, 18 commits, 70 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on developing and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline and related automation scripts for the Crystal project. Their work involved creating utilities to generate reports, automating shard removal based on CI status, and integrating GitHub Actions. The user also refactored the CLI, supporting transferred repos and using more object-oriented patterns for maintainability, along with bumping markd version for 1.0.0 support. They addressed deprecations, and optimized build processes.
shardscrystalfundamentalsgemweb-developer
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
The OpenTelemetry PHP Library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 15 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:George contributed to the OpenTelemetry PHP library by implementing core features such as link and links types and ensuring proper propagation within the system. They focused on enhancing the functionality of tracing by integrating links into the export process using Otlp Grpc or Protobuf. Furthermore, they addressed vulnerabilities by incorporating security enhancements and fixing potential flaws within the application's code and data handling procedures. They also improved the stability of the project by implementing unit tests and fixing reported errors.
opentelemetry-phpphptracingloggingotel
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