Gil Raphaelli
Senior Director Of Engineering at Elastic
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolGil Raphaelli is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling observability, ingestion, and AI/ML systems, currently directing engineering for ClickHouse’s Agentic Data Stack. He led Elastic’s OpenTelemetry collection and APM efforts, bringing open-source Go services like apm-server and beats into managed cloud production and contributing key backend and DevOps improvements to those widely used projects. Known for pragmatic reliability and cost-efficiency at global ingestion scale, he combines deep systems and Go expertise with product-facing operational experience. Based in Philadelphia, he blends hands-on contributions (including HTTP tracing and build/versioning improvements in Elastic repos) with strategic org leadership, and has a background spanning startups to large platforms dating back to Yahoo/Flickr.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Information Technology, Graduate Certificate Information Technology at The University of QueenslandBS MSIS, BS MSIS at Penn State University
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Github Skills (37)
monitoring10
tracer10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
amazon-elasticsearch10
distributed-tracing10
testing10
apm10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
golang10
elasticsearch10
backend10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/apm-server
Nov 2017 - Sep 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 585 commits, 1025 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gil contributed to the APM server by updating the Beats framework, including dependencies, license information, and various code fixes. They made changes to the internal structure of several components including indexers, exception handling, and data processing. They also updated the documentation and ensured the code base was compatible with the Go standard library's formatting and testing.
performance-monitoringapmdevopserror-monitoringperformance-metrics
elastic/apm-agent-go
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gil focused on improving the Elastic APM Go agent, specifically working on internal schemas, fixing a URL formatting issue, and adding an HTTP tracing feature. They updated JSON schemas for various components and implemented the httptrace option to provide detailed tracing information for HTTP client requests. The user also contributed to improve the existing codebase by resolving uses of unkeyed fields in composite literals and grouping HTTP trace spans.
golangagentapmelastictracing
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