Gustavo Paiva is a software engineer with a decade of experience building observable, reliable cloud-native systems from Brazil’s Minas Gerais. He blends backend engineering and SRE practices, having implemented metric and tracing improvements across OpenTelemetry projects and helped shape internal collector and enrichment services at ServiceNow. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved tooling like the popular k9s Kubernetes CLI and refactored the Jaeger exporter in opentelemetry-go to better handle links and options. Gustavo excels at making systems more testable and instrumented—adding Prometheus prefixes, shared registries, and RBAC-aware features—and often focuses on practical robustness rather than flashy new tech. He brings hands-on experience with Kubernetes, GCP, Prometheus/Grafana, and Terraform integrations, and has a pattern of turning observability work into tangible developer productivity gains.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at UFOP - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Contributions:103 reviews, 36 commits, 42 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gustavo primarily contributed to the Jaeger exporter within the OpenTelemetry Go library. Their work involved refactoring options for the Jaeger exporter to use a functional style. They also introduced the ability to export Links, added and modified tests, changed keys to string aliases and KeyValue constructors, and modified how process tags are handled. The user also refactored and improved the existing features in the codebase.
🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:21 commits, 29 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gustavo primarily focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the `k9s` application. Their contributions involved fixing clipboard errors, streamlining the application's flash messages, and adding functionality for object command aliases. Furthermore, they made changes to the configuration of CRD functionality, enhancing the application's ability to interact with Kubernetes custom resources.
golangk8s-clusterclustersdevopskubernetes-cli
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