Ibraheem Aboulnaga
Software Engineer at Datadog
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolIbraheem Aboulnaga is a software engineer based in Waterloo with six years of hands-on experience building and stabilizing backend systems. Currently at Datadog, he has advanced from intern to full-time engineer, contributing to observability tooling and the Datadog exporter in the high-profile OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository. His work emphasizes robustness—updating dependencies, reducing flaky tests, adding feature flags, and improving span translation and resource naming to boost exporter reliability and performance. Prior internships at BitGo, Faire, Wish, and a full-stack stint at WayPoint Golf reflect breadth across fintech, e-commerce, and consumer platforms. Trained in Computer Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo, he blends strong backend engineering fundamentals with practical open-source impact on widely used telemetry infrastructure. Notably, he focuses on making distributed tracing components more resilient and maintainable, a niche that directly improves large-scale monitoring fidelity.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (7)
opentelemetry10
exports10
go10
exporter10
testing9
feature-flags8
cicd4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 7 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ibraheem primarily contributed to the Datadog exporter within the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository. Their work involved updating dependencies, specifically integrating a newer version of `opentelemetry-mapping-go` for logs and metrics. They also added feature flags, refactoring the operation and resource name logic, and implementing new functionalities to improve span translation. The user addressed test flakiness and bumped the Datadog agent version, enhancing the stability and performance of the exporter.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
IbraheemA/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:80 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
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