Mauri De Souza Meneguzzo is a senior software engineer and OTel specialist with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, real-time systems from his early Linux roots in the Brazilian Army to leading engineering teams and serving as CTO. He has hands-on expertise in Go, Rust, PHP, NodeJS, Kubernetes and GCP, and has repeatedly shipped efficient telemetry and ingestion solutions—most recently helping Elastic Agent achieve ~50% memory reduction by running in OpenTelemetry mode. Mauri combines product-minded leadership with day-to-day engineering, having scaled a SaaS call-center platform to thousands of concurrent users and driven a 120% MRR growth at 3CPlus. An active open-source contributor, he’s made practical fixes and features in projects like golang/go, Beats, and the OpenTelemetry Collector contrib repository, including Elasticsearch exporter improvements and timezone/CI fixes for Beats. He also brings applied ML experience (TensorFlow model work and mailbox detection) and a security-minded background in cryptography and vulnerability triage. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he thrives in remote, cross-functional teams and prefers solving system-level performance and observability challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Degree Specialization in Data Science, AI & Cybersecurity, Dual Degree Specialization in Data Science, AI & Cybersecurity at GRUPO UNINTER
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology with a focus on Systems Analysis and Design, Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology with a focus on Systems Analysis and Design at Uniftec
A POC Windows crypto-ransomware (Academic). Now Ransom:Win32/MauriCrypt.MK!MTB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:187 commits, 9 PRs, 209 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mauri primarily focused on developing the core functionality of the ransomware project. Their contributions include moving code between files, handling errors during file decryption, and implementing file encryption using AES-256. They added the functionality to encrypt a list of interesting files and store the encrypted names. The user also introduced RSA encryption and decryption, along with server-side logic for key management.
Contributions:84 PRs, 405 comments, 69 issues in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mauri primarily contributed to the Go programming language's core library, focusing on fixing bugs and implementing features. Their work included addressing issues related to channel closure in the reflect package, enforcing the -skip flag in example tests, and adding PCALIGN support for the cmd/asm package. The user also added methods to the archive/zip and archive/tar packages, and made performance optimizations to byte algorithms in amd64.
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Mauri De Souza Meneguzzo - OTel Engineer Senior Software Engineer at Elastic