Jacob Aronoff
Founding Engineer at Tero
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Aronoff is a founding engineer and telemetry-focused software leader with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native observability systems from both product and open-source angles. Based in New York, he’s a core maintainer of the OpenTelemetry Operator and has contributed instrumentation and Prometheus integrations to the widely used OpenTelemetry Collector projects, demonstrating deep expertise in Go, Kubernetes, and metrics pipelines. He’s led telemetry migrations and pipeline work at Lightstep and Drift, architecting zero-downtime Kubernetes moves and service-mesh observability for high-concurrency Elixir systems. As a serial organizer and mentor—hackNY director and fellow—he pairs hands-on engineering with community stewardship and developer advocacy. Currently building next-generation telemetry protocols at Tero, he blends protocol design with practical engineering for policy-driven, efficient observability. An unusual strength: he moves easily between low-level instrumentation and operational runbooks, so he ships code that is both measurable and operable in production.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityMilton Academy
English, Chinese, hebrew (basic knowledge)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
observability10
back-end-development10
kubernetes-operator10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
opentelemetry10
backend10
telemetry10
metric10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
docker8
http-client8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes Operator for OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 1456 reviews, 18 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jacob contributed to the OpenTelemetry Operator by adding functionality related to service accounts for the Target Allocator. Their work involved creating and linking service accounts, implementing changes to the target allocator deployment, and integrating Prometheus metrics. They also fixed parameter encoding issues and addressed several bugs related to the target allocator's target allocation. These changes demonstrate experience with Kubernetes, Go, and Prometheus integration within the context of an operator.
opentelemetry-collectoroperatorobservabilitykuberneteskubernetes-operator
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 14 days
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on implementing observability features within the OpenTelemetry Collector. Their contributions included instrumenting exporters to include OpenTelemetry metrics, allowing for dual instrumentation, and adding back mutators for metrics and spans. The user modified the code to incorporate OpenTelemetry's metric functionalities by adding metric instruments and counters. These changes enable better monitoring and tracing capabilities within the collector, enhancing the ability to track and diagnose issues.
opentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservabilitytelemetry
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