Jose Blanquicet
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
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Top SchoolJose Blanquicet is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a decade of experience building cloud-native and system-level tooling, specializing in Kubernetes and eBPF. Based in Medellín, Colombia, he blends backend and DevOps expertise to ship observability and data-collection features—contributing to notable open-source work like Inspektor Gadget, where he added eBPF-based socket collection and improved Kubernetes liveness probes. His background in electronics and network engineering (Universidad de Antioquia and Politecnico di Torino) informs a systems-minded approach to reliability and performance. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, low-level solutions that bridge kernel insights with containerized production environments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Electronics Engineering, Engineer's degree, Electronics Engineering at Universidad de AntioquiaMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer and Communication Networks Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer and Communication Networks Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Spanish, Italian, English
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Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
docker10
go10
containerization10
dockers10
ebpf10
kubernetes-pods10
grpc9
containerd8
bpf8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
inspektor-gadget/inspektor-gadget
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:2121 reviews, 466 commits, 352 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jose contributed to the development and maintenance of the Inspektor Gadget project, demonstrating expertise in containerization and system-level inspection. The user implemented features related to the Kubernetes liveness probe for the GadgetTracerManager and made improvements to the container images. Additionally, they updated dependencies, including the pretty and gRPC packages, and improved the error handling. The user also added a new gadget to collect TCP/UDP sockets information using eBPF iterators.
bpfgadgetskubernetes-applicationskinvolkhackto
blanquicet/inspektor-gadget
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Introspecting and debugging Kubernetes applications using BPF "gadgets"
Contributions:11 PRs, 21 pushes, 14 branches in 29 days
bpfgadgetskubernetes-applicationsdebuggingkubernetes
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