Julien Pivotto
Principal Software Architect & CoFounder at Inuits
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Julien Pivotto is a Principal Software Architect, co-founder of O11y, and a 19-year veteran focused on open-source observability and infrastructure. A long-time Prometheus maintainer, he has contributed UI, backend, and exporter improvements across the Prometheus ecosystem and helped harden projects like Alertmanager, node_exporter, Thanos/Cortex, and Grafana Mimir. He combines hands-on Go development, DevOps and security-minded engineering—adding TLS, auth, HTTP/2 support and CI/CD improvements—to make monitoring software production-ready at scale. Julien also brings deep Puppet, Terraform and cloud provider experience from roles at Atos, Nokia and as an open-source consultant at Inuits. He authors and leverages the latest edition of “Prometheus Up & Running” and runs a company that provides premium support and custom development for observability stacks. Based in Antwerp, he pairs practical operational experience with public speaking and community-driven documentation work that keeps projects usable for real-world teams.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Informatique, Informatique at Université catholique de LouvainLPIC-1, Administrateur réseau certifié Linux et Windows, LPIC-1, Administrateur réseau certifié Linux et Windows at Technifutur, LiègeLinux, Réseaux hétérogènes, Linux, Réseaux hétérogènes at IFOSUP Wavre
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Github Skills (128)
dependency-management10
go-modules10
cloud-computing10
testing10
plugin-development10
rspec10
http10
authentication10
bash10
grafana10
terraform10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
ruby10
mtls10
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/terraform-provider-gitlab
May 2017 - Nov 2021
Terraform GitLab Provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 39 reviews, 179 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Julien's primary contributions focused on enhancing the GitLab Terraform provider. They implemented features to ensure real-time deletion of projects, upgrading the API to v4, and adding a new resource for labels. Furthermore, the user improved functionality by incorporating path support, and they implemented tests to enable import functionality for resources. The user also validated the API URL version and added state change functionality, demonstrating a strong understanding of the provider's architecture and operational aspects.
terraform-providerprovidergitlabterraform
grafana/grafonnet-lib
Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
Jsonnet library for generating Grafana dashboard files.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 209 commits, 190 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Julien Pivotto's contributions focused on building out core functionality within the `grafonnet-lib` repository. They began by creating initial dashboard and timepicker components. Further development included adding support for templates, rows, and graph panels, along with associated tests. Additionally, they implemented Prometheus target integration and added support for single stat panels and various customization options.
grafanajsonnetdashboardgrafana-dashboardmonitoring
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