Oscar Gaucin is a Lead Software Engineer with 10+ years building and scaling SaaS and on-prem platforms, blending hands-on implementation with technical strategy. He has architected cloud and on-prem solutions (React, Node.js, Kubernetes, Elixir) that serve millions and thousands of devices respectively, and led CI/CD and deployment automation that cut release failures and deployment windows dramatically. At Tracetest he grew adoption and telemetry throughput while shipping integrations that reduced integration time from days to minutes, and his open-source frontend work includes OpenTelemetry and Tracetest UI improvements and instrumentation. Known for improving developer experience—custom CLIs and standardized flows that slashed setup and onboarding times—he focuses on clean, maintainable systems and observability. Based in Coahuila, Mexico, he’s currently exploring Elixir for multimedia device management and shares his engineering work on GitHub and Medium.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer systems engineer., Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer systems engineer. at Instituto Tecnológico de La Laguna
🔭 Tracetest - Build integration and end-to-end tests in minutes, instead of days, using OpenTelemetry and trace-based testing.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:1451 reviews, 237 commits, 1050 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Oscar's commits focus on front-end development tasks, implementing UI changes. The changes include modifications to the UI for the Test and Home pages, and the addition of navigation links to the header. Further, the user implemented the creation of new features such as adding assertion results display and the ability to create and edit output for the transaction. The user also implemented code block and improvements of the code related to the trace view.
This repository contains the OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop, a microservice-based distributed system intended to illustrate the implementation of OpenTelemetry in a near real-world environment.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:62 reviews, 10 commits, 18 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Oscar primarily focused on front-end development, specifically migrating the application's front end from Go to Next.js and implementing new features. They significantly updated product detail pages and cart functionality. The commits also include setting up instrumentation for the frontend, enhancing the application's monitoring capabilities. Additional changes involve modifying cart and checkout flows with the currency and adding Cypress E2E tests.
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