Jorge Niedbalski
Bilbao, Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain
Summary
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RockstarJorge Niedbalski is a seasoned systems-focused software engineer with 14 years building and automating Linux infrastructure, currently leading technical efforts at Calyptia and contributing at Chronosphere. He combines deep systems programming in C and Go with practical DevOps experience—shipping production-ready container and monitoring integrations for projects like Fluent Bit and OpenStack Kolla. As a fluent core developer and OSS maintainer, he has contributed meaningful improvements to widely used projects such as pip and Fluent Bit, including editable-install handling and advanced input/output enhancements. Jorge’s background spans hands-on sustaining engineering at Canonical, datacenter automation at Linaro, and leading small high-performance teams, reflecting a blend of performance-minded coding and operational rigor. He’s consistently focused on performance and observability, and maintains a public portfolio of work at github.com/niedbalski and niedbalski.dev.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (32)
git10
docker10
data-collection10
python10
packaging10
c1110
containerization10
dockers10
collector10
c1710
prometheus10
openstack10
version-control10
system-administration10
pip10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
fluent/fluent-bit
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
Fast and Lightweight Logs, Metrics and Traces processor for Linux, BSD, OSX and Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:185 reviews, 136 commits, 379 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jorge contributed to the development and enhancement of the Fluent-Bit project by addressing various aspects, including Dockerfile updates, improvements to Splunk output configuration, and the addition of property checks for inputs, outputs, and filters. They also addressed issues related to multiline parsing in the tail input plugin and implemented features in the custom Calyptia output plugin, such as machine ID and label properties. Furthermore, the user improved TLS handling and contributed to the in_ebpf plugin.
data-collectorpromqlloggingprometheuscloudnative
sosreport/sos
Apr 2014 - Nov 2019
A unified tool for collecting system logs and other debug information
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 9 comments in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to enhancing the sosreport project by integrating and expanding support for various system monitoring and management tools. They added outputs from `maas`, `juju`, `rabbitmq`, and `ubuntu-support-status` commands, indicating a focus on gathering system-level diagnostic information. Furthermore, they incorporated options to generate a YAML bundle for Juju environments and collect specific data using MongoDB.
loggingcollectingdebugsystem-logslogs
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