Otis Gospodnetić
Founder And CEO at Sematext Group, Inc.
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolOtis Gospodnetić is a veteran founder and CEO with over two decades of experience building distributed search and monitoring systems, currently leading the profitable, bootstrapped Sematext Group. He grew a fully remote, international engineering organization early on and shifted services to recurring revenue while also creating a multi-solution observability SaaS before the industry settled on the “three pillars” terminology. A long‑time Apache Software Foundation member and committer on Lucene, Solr, Nutch and Mahout, he co‑authored Lucene in Action and has deep expertise in search, logging, analytics and real‑time systems. Otis blends hands‑on engineering (hiring for React, Go, Rust, eBPF, Elasticsearch/ClickHouse) with product and consulting leadership, and brings an unusual outside‑work focus as a certified advanced SCUBA diver and freediving instructor.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at MIOCBA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Middlebury College
English, Croatian, German
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Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
jaeger10
cpp10
influxdb10
log-shipping10
k8s10
client-library10
tencent10
gwt10
elk10
json10
saas10
apm10
prometheus10
nodejs10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
sematext/sematext-logsene-ios
Aug 2016 - Jul 2021
Sematext Logs Client Library for iOS
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 4 years 11 months
client-librarylog-managementmobile-analyticsloggingios
sematext/sematext-agent-httpd
Mar 2016 - Apr 2022
Sematext Apache Monitoring Agent
Contributions:8 PRs, 12 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 1 month
monitoringsematextagentapache
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