Ian Grunert
Software Engineer at Pax Andromeda
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Grunert is a software engineer with nine years of experience building performance-sensitive systems, currently improving the Windows port of WebKit at a small startup in New York. He brings deep backend and full-stack expertise from multiple senior roles at Atlassian—where he led scalability and release cadence improvements for cloud products—to hands-on systems work shipping WebAssembly interpreter support. An active open-source contributor, Ian has strengthened the OpenTelemetry PHP library by implementing OTLP exporters and refining span conversion behavior to meet spec edge cases. Comfortable switching between startup scrappiness and large-org impact, he combines pragmatic engineering with an eye for reliability and developer tooling. A first-class honors software engineering graduate, he also has a track record of leading product development as a co-founder and mentoring engineering teams.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.E(Software Engineering) First Class Honours, B.E(Software Engineering) First Class Honours at University of Adelaide
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Github Skills (17)
tracer10
zipkin10
php10
opentelemetry10
trace10
phpunit9
fabricjs6
chrome-native-messaging6
typescript6
bidirectional6
asynchronous6
accessibility6
deno6
javascript6
html5-canvas6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
The OpenTelemetry PHP Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 15 commits, 14 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to improving the OpenTelemetry PHP library, focusing on the implementation of OTLP/GRPC and HTTP exporters. Their work included modifying span converters, specifically addressing the handling of empty spans and ensuring compliance with the OpenTelemetry specification. The user also added tests for the OTLPGrpc exporter and implemented changes to update the port in the HTTP exporter based on recent specifications. Furthermore, the user contributed to the Zipkin span conversion, including implementation of the 'kind' attribute, instrumentation library attributes, and enhancements for event handling and remote endpoint logic.
opentelemetry-phpphptracingloggingotel
Grunet/cloud-native-honeypot
Jul 2023 - Aug 2024
Honeypots made for a cloud native world
Contributions:2 reviews, 135 PRs, 330 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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