Nicolas Takashi
Tech Lead - Observability Unit at Coralogix
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolNicolas Takashi is a tech lead with 11 years of experience specializing in observability, distributed systems and cloud-native engineering, currently leading the Observability Unit at Coralogix from Braga, Portugal. He has driven platform and observability efforts at companies like FARFETCH and contributed substantive backend and DevOps work to prominent open-source projects such as Thanos and Prometheus Operator, including features for long-term Prometheus storage, tracing, and enhanced HTTP logging. Nicolas blends hands-on engineering with leadership, shipping operational improvements like WAL compression support and Consul integration that reduce toil and improve reliability at scale. Born in Brazil and active in the global OSS community, he writes and speaks about systems architecture, APIs and cloud engineering, bringing both technical depth and clear communication. Known for pragmatic solutions, he often surfaces subtle operational details—like forwarding headers and user-agent logging—to make distributed systems more observable and debuggable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Analysis and System development, Analysis and System development at UNIP - Universidade Paulista
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
tracer10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
trace10
devops10
metric10
observability9
object-storage9
yaml9
object-store9
notificationmanager9
alarmmanager9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
Prometheus Operator creates/configures/manages Prometheus clusters atop Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 377 reviews, 71 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nicolas contributed to adding tracing support for Prometheus, enabling users to troubleshoot effectively using traces. They addressed issues related to Prometheus Agent WAL compression support, enhancing data handling. Moreover, the user was involved in updating the ScrapeConfig, adding support to Consul on Scrape CRD and working on adding alertmanager msteams support. These contributions show expertise in backend functionalities and operational improvements within the Prometheus Operator.
clustersoperatorprometheus-operatorkubernetesatop
thanos-io/thanos
May 2022 - May 2022
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 1 commit, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nicolas contributed to adding new features related to bucket utility commands such as `upload-blocks`, implementing functionalities for uploading blocks to object storage and integrating prometheus configurations. The user's work involved modifying code related to metrics collection, object storage interaction, and Prometheus integration. Furthermore, the user enhanced logging functionalities by considering the `X-Forwarded-For` header for HTTP requests and adding user agent information to HTTP logs.
promqlobservabilityprometheusstoragegoogle-cloud-storage
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