John Klingler is a pragmatic Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems and device-integrated solutions from prototype hardware to production microservices. He specializes in Scala, Akka, functional programming, and JVM tooling, and has driven migrations from hand-built EC2 deployments to CloudFormation, ECS, and Kubernetes with ArgoCD-led CD pipelines. At Monsanto and CiBO he combined embedded device design and PCB prototyping with backend automation and CI/CD improvements, reducing costs and enabling new IoT and M2M workflows. A trusted mentor and build-tool author, he created a custom SBT plugin and contributed targeted fixes to high-profile open-source projects such as the Datadog Java tracer. Based in Missouri, he pairs deep systems-level knowledge (classloaders, clustering, profiling) with a practical, test-driven approach to solving unusual and challenging problems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on improving the `DefaultLogHandler` implementation within the Datadog tracing library for Java. Their contributions involved refactoring the `isErrorSpan` method, correcting logic, and adding/updating tests. The changes were made across multiple files, including `DefaultLogHandler.java` and related test files, enhancing the handling of error messages and span attributes within the tracing framework. These improvements likely increase the accuracy and reliability of error reporting within traced applications.
Unwrapping Plex multipart requests for a better tomorrow.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 9 PRs in 2 years 3 months
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John Klingler - Senior Software Engineer at CiBO Technologies