Jackson Weber
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJackson Weber is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with seven years of experience building backend systems and observability tooling. Based in Seattle, he contributes to Application Insights and has notable open-source work on the widely used OpenTelemetry JavaScript client, improving exporters (Prometheus, Jaeger, Zipkin, OTLP) and adding robust handling for timestamps and NaNs. Prior roles at Datto and as a project manager at UMass Amherst show a blend of hands-on engineering and team-facing leadership in Agile environments. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and an AA from Middlesex CC, and brings a practical focus on reliable telemetry and export pipelines that help surface production signal for large-scale applications.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science, 3.8, Associate's degree, Computer Science, 3.8 at Middlesex Community CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.6, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.6 at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (8)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
javascript10
api10
telemetry10
metric10
prometheus9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 1 commit, 13 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jackson primarily worked on improving the OpenTelemetry JavaScript client's exporter implementations. Their contributions included adding and modifying functionality related to the Prometheus exporter, specifically addressing issues around NaN handling and timestamping. Furthermore, they added and updated various span exporter functionalities and related tests, including those for Jaeger, Zipkin and OTLP exporters. The user also made updates to the SDK, including adding the ability to configure the sampler with an exporter set in the environment.
apijavascript-clientjavascripttelemetryotel
JacksonWeber/opentelemetry-js-contrib
Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
OpenTelemetry instrumentation for JavaScript modules
Contributions:43 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 8 months
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