Glenn Oppegard
Staff Site Reliability Engineer Observability at Focused
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolGlenn Oppegard is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer specializing in observability with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems from the VM to Kubernetes layer. He blends deep hands-on skills in Go, Ruby, Linux, and cloud platforms with a decade of XP/Pivotal-style Agile practice to deliver reliable telemetry, logging, and collector tooling for enterprise customers. Glenn has driven OpenTelemetry adoption across products—implementing collectors, trace exporters, and Kubernetes Operators—and contributed to well-known Cloud Foundry projects like BOSH and Loggregator. He’s equally comfortable refactoring Java/Spring services for long-term maintainability and shipping pragmatic serverless proofs-of-concept to influence product direction. Based in Denver, he brings a rare mix of production-operational experience and open-source contribution that reduces operational risk while accelerating observability adoption.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology at Metropolitan State University of Denver
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Github Skills (36)
bosh10
cloud-foundry10
configuration-management10
http10
cloud-infrastructure10
cl10
release-management10
go10
yaml10
system-administration10
sh10
logging10
release-automation10
devops10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/loggregator-release
Jul 2013 - Dec 2013
Cloud Native Logging
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:56 commits, 1 push in 5 months
Contributions summary:Glenn primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and reliability of the loggregator-release project. Their contributions include implementing features like filtering messages by app ID, which improved the efficiency of log streaming. They also addressed the project's infrastructure by moving to chunked HTTP responses and improving the handling of system-level errors. Further contributions included refactoring code to support package-based organization, as well as fixing and improving various command line arguments and settings.
golangcloud-foundryfluentdloggingcff-wg-app-runtime-platform
cloudfoundry/bosh
Sep 2012 - Dec 2013
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:136 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Glenn primarily contributed to the BOSH CLI, focusing on improving stemcell and release management. They implemented a new CLI command for downloading deployment manifests and added functionality to display release and stemcell information within `bosh deployments`. Additionally, the user addressed formatting issues in help output and improved the error handling for the stemcell deletion.
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