Israel Blancas
Software Engineer at Coralogix
Granada, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolIsrael Blancas is a versatile software engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native systems, observability tooling, and cross-platform developer infrastructure. Comfortable across Python, Go, C/C++, Kubernetes and CI/CD, he has driven major improvements from cutting a 27-hour build to ~2 hours to enhancing OpenTelemetry, Jaeger and Grafana Tempo operators at Red Hat. A strong test-automation and reliability advocate, he introduced deterministic E2E suites and CI automations that dramatically sped up PR validation. Active in open source, he contributes to the prominent OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repo (adding leak detection and metric consistency) and leads local tech community efforts as a Google Developer Expert and GDG Granada organizer. He brings a blend of hands-on systems engineering, observability expertise, and public-speaking mentorship that helps teams ship resilient distributed tracing solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Degree Computer Science, Computer Science Degree Computer Science at Universidad de Granada
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (29)
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
e2e-test10
testing10
exporter10
cicd10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
opentelemetry10
exports10
dockers9
docker9
metric9
elasticsearch8
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
jaegertracing/jaeger-operator
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Jaeger Operator for Kubernetes simplifies deploying and running Jaeger on Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 286 reviews, 136 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Israel focused on improving the robustness and reliability of the Jaeger Operator for Kubernetes by implementing and enhancing end-to-end (E2E) tests. They added E2E testing for features like ES Rollover, upgrade scenarios, and OpenShift-specific functionalities. The contributions also included improving the stability of existing tests, addressing unexpected HTTP codes, and enhancing the testing framework for better coverage.
deployingjaegertracingoperatorkuberneteskubernetes-operator
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Aug 2022 - Apr 2025
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 22 PRs, 68 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Israel primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository by adding and enabling testing for potential memory leaks. Their work focused on integrating Go's `goleak` testing library across various receivers, exporters, and extensions. Furthermore, the user promoted a feature flag for converting metrics between Sum and Gauge and improved the consistency of metrics generated by the spanmetricsconnector. Additionally, they introduced a new OTTL function for Unix timestamps and added support for partial success handling in the Coralogix exporter.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
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