Granville Schmidt
Chief Technology Officer at Strata Identity
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGranville Schmidt is a Chief Technology Officer and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience turning complex distributed systems, identity, and cybersecurity challenges into high-performance, operationally excellent solutions. At Strata Identity he progressed from Principal Architect to Chief Architect and now CTO, blending hands-on architecture with strategic leadership for identity-focused platforms. His background spans embedded systems, SRE, and security—backed by an MS in Electrical Engineering and multiple certifications including CISSP, CCSP, CKA, and Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect. An active contributor to OpenTelemetry, he built a Loki log exporter that demonstrates practical backend integration skills and attention to production-grade observability. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who prioritizes clarity and measurable customer impact, and he’s as likely to discuss distributed systems or AI as he is to play pickleball.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at MITx CoursesMaster of Science - MS Electrical Engineering (Embedded Systems), Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering (Embedded Systems) at University of Colorado BoulderComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
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Github Skills (17)
apim10
log-parser10
go10
api10
cloki10
opentelemetry10
lokijs10
logging10
azure-ad-b2c6
ruby-on-rails6
font-face6
kubernetes-cluster6
css6
windows-containers6
ruby6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 30 commits, 39 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Granville primarily contributed to the development of a Loki log exporter for the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository. Their work focused on adding the initial structure for the Loki exporter, including the README and core logic. They made several code adjustments, renaming settings and updating examples, and addressed build issues, demonstrating attention to detail and code quality. These changes involved defining configurations and interactions related to the Loki API, indicating a focus on backend integration and log processing.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
Phirtual/tflite-micro
Nov 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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