Kristina Pathak
Senior Distributed Systems Software Engineer - NVCF at NVIDIA
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKristina Pathak is a Senior Distributed Systems Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience building scalable, production-grade backend systems. She has led teams and projects from POC to GA—most recently driving a span ingestion rewrite using a custom OpenTelemetry Collector at Lightstep and now contributing to NVIDIA’s NVCF efforts. Kristina is a pragmatic maintainer and contributor to major open-source observability projects (notably the widely used OpenTelemetry Collector and Operator), where she’s improved build reliability, strict versioning checks, and thread-safe allocator logic. Her background includes operating high-scale websocket infrastructure at Comcast and automating CI/CD and deployment tooling, reflecting a blend of systems, distributed tracing, and DevOps fluency. Colleagues praise her for refactoring messy codebases into maintainable services and for mentoring engineers in Go and production best practices.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Gonzaga University
Github Skills (19)
go-modules10
builder-pattern10
testing10
kubernetes-operator10
go10
opentelemetry10
builders10
telemetry10
builder-io10
concurrency10
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
error-handling9
version-control8
cli8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Kubernetes Operator for OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:97 reviews, 9 commits, 17 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Kristina primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the OpenTelemetry Operator. They implemented mutex protection and getter functions for allocator maps, ensuring thread-safe access to critical data structures. Further contributions included refactoring code, improving code formatting and documentation, and addressing linting issues, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability within the project.
opentelemetry-collectoroperatorobservabilitykuberneteskubernetes-operator
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 9 PRs, 38 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Kristina contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector project by implementing and enhancing the builder component. Their work included adding features such as the `ldflags` option for the builder, implementing strict versioning checks to ensure compatibility between the builder and the collector's dependencies, and optimizing the build process through configurable retry attempts for module downloads. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by incorporating changes that focused on more informative error messages related to missing configurations. These changes improved the builder's functionality and maintainability.
opentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservabilitytelemetry
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