Gerhard Stöbich
Senior Product Architect at Dynatrace
Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolGerhard Stöbich is a Senior Product Architect with 10+ years of experience designing and shipping robust back-end systems, currently shaping product architecture at Dynatrace. He brings deep runtime and observability expertise, demonstrated by substantive contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Node.js and OpenTelemetry where he improved HTTP/2, crypto, async hooks and tracing instrumentation. His background in embedded and systems software (Fujitsu, Socionext, Comneon) gives him a low-level perspective that informs scalable, performant cloud-native designs. Comfortable moving between hands-on core-runtime fixes and product-level architecture, he also improves developer experience through TypeScript type work and native abstractions. Based in Austria and trained in electrical engineering at TU Wien, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with pragmatic product thinking.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
German, English
Github Skills (24)
crypto10
asynchronous10
javascript10
c-language10
async10
distributed-tracing10
http10
typescript10
type-definition10
performance-optimization10
typescript-types10
opentelemetry10
v8-javascript-engine10
nodejs10
typescripts10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js-contrib
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
OpenTelemetry instrumentation for JavaScript modules
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:619 reviews, 44 commits, 62 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Gerhard primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry JavaScript instrumentation library, focusing on back-end related tasks. They modified code to align with OpenTelemetry specifications, updating dependencies and adapting to API changes. Furthermore, the user worked on implementing instrumentation for various modules, particularly Redis and DNS, demonstrating a strong understanding of integrating tracing capabilities within JavaScript applications. They also addressed build and test issues related to those instrumentations.
instrumentationjavascript-modulesjavascriptobservabilityotel
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:758 reviews, 66 commits, 84 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Gerhard primarily focused on back-end improvements, debugging, and code maintenance within the OpenTelemetry JavaScript client. Their work included fixing issues related to the zipkin-exporter, handling URL parsing for HTTP plugins, and correcting trace state implementation. In addition, they refactored existing code by removing unnecessary features and making improvements to other libraries.
apijavascript-clientjavascripttelemetryotel
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