Grant Bourque
Software Engineer at Grant Bourque Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolGrant Bourque is a software engineer based in Philadelphia with 11 years of experience building backend systems for startups and clients through his company, Grant Bourque Inc. He previously spent four years at Anedot, gaining production experience in web services and payment-related tooling. An active open-source contributor, Grant has added several OpenTelemetry Ruby instrumentation adapters that enable tracing across common HTTP clients and Redis, helping teams observe distributed requests more effectively. He holds a 4.0 CS degree from LSU and combines rigorous academic foundations with practical, client-facing engineering. Grant is interested in opportunities that stretch his work across observability, integrations, and reliable backend architecture. Colleagues know him for pragmatic, incremental improvements that yield measurable operational benefits.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0 GPA at Louisiana State University
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Github Skills (15)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
http10
redis10
adapter10
ruby10
excon9
rest-client9
nethttp9
telemetry8
ruby-on-rails6
css6
postcss6
webpack6
webpacker6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
OpenTelemetry Ruby API & SDK, and related gems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 39 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Grant contributed several instrumentation adapters for various HTTP client libraries and other tools within the OpenTelemetry Ruby ecosystem. These adapters enable the tracing of network requests made via libraries like `rest-client`, `excon`, `Net::HTTP`, and `ethon`, and interactions with Redis. The user's work involved integrating OpenTelemetry tracing capabilities, allowing for the monitoring of HTTP requests and Redis operations. This included modifying code to inject trace context and set attributes related to the requests.
opentelemetryapiapi-sdktracingruby
grantbdev/grantbdev.github.io
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 review, 20 PRs, 36 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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