Israel Ogbole
Co-Founder & CEO at zymtrace
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIsrael Ogbole is a pragmatic technology leader and founder with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native observability and performance products, currently scaling zymtrace to make GPU and CPU profiling accessible across modern stacks. He blends deep engineering roots—from Java and backend performance work to eBPF-based profiling—with product leadership honed at Elastic and Cisco, where he shipped universal profiling, cloud monitoring, and tagging features from beta to GA. Customer-centricity and data-driven decision making guide his work, and he has a track record of turning complex telemetry into actionable recommendations that drive revenue and retention. An MBA candidate with advanced telecom and cloud certifications (CKAD, GCP Architect, Terraform), he uniquely bridges low-level performance optimization and go-to-market strategy. Notably, he led the open-sourcing of an eBPF profiling agent into the OpenTelemetry ecosystem, reflecting a commitment to frictionless observability and community impact.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Data Analytics, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Data Analytics at Arden UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Benue State UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Telecommunications Engineering (Programming option), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Telecommunications Engineering (Programming option) at Middlesex UniversityDiploma (Level 7), Strategic Management & Leadership Practice, Diploma (Level 7), Strategic Management & Leadership Practice at Chartered Management Institute
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Github Skills (146)
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
k8s10
netscaler10
kubernetes10
observability10
foundation10
html-template10
prepare10
appdynamics10
elastic10
profiler10
kibana10
qemu9
api9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
iogbole/blog.israelo
Jan 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 680 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 8 months
Appdynamics/mark-nodes-historical
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Mark AppDynamics Nodes as Historical Nodes
Contributions:3 releases, 24 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 2 months
historicalnodesappdynamicsmark
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