Nithin Puthenveettil
Software Engineer - IBM Instana Go Tracer Team
Kerala, India
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Top SchoolNithin Puthenveettil is a backend engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems across APM, e-commerce, and self-checkout solutions, currently contributing to IBM Instana’s Go Tracer SDK. He specializes in Golang and Node.js, microservices, AWS serverless patterns, and designing large-scale importer/exporter systems, with hands-on experience instrumenting SDKs such as Couchbase for observability. His prior work includes migrating high-volume systems from DynamoDB to PostgreSQL and building MQTT-based cash services for NCR’s self-checkout machines, showing strength in both data migrations and hardware-adjacent services. Nithin is active in CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions and Tekton and contributes to OpenTelemetry, reflecting a focus on reliable delivery and standard observability. Deeply curious about low-level performance, he explores Linux kernel development and eBPF to enhance tracing and efficiency—an interest that informs his APM work. He’s aiming to deepen expertise in Go and Rust while expanding into DevOps to bridge development and operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at Government Engineering College Sreekrishnapuram, Palakkad
English, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
monitoring10
distributed-tracing10
instana10
instrumentation10
opentracing10
rocket10
opencensus10
golang10
gopher10
performance-monitoring10
trace10
sensor10
paths9
observability9
grafana9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nithinputhenveettil/go-sensor
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
:rocket: Go Distributed Tracing & Metrics Sensor for Instana
Contributions:6 releases, 33 PRs, 55 pushes in 10 months
nithinputhenveettil/single-player-pong-game
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:14 commits in 3 months
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