Owais Lone
Principal Software Engineer at Splunk
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolOwais Lone is a Principal Software Engineer based in Greater Vancouver with 15 years of experience building scalable back-end systems and developer tooling. He currently leads engineering efforts at Splunk after progressing through senior roles and an acquisition at Omnition, bringing deep expertise in observability and resource-efficient systems. A prolific open-source contributor, Owais has driven memory-ballast and telemetry improvements in the widely used OpenTelemetry Collector and Collector Contrib projects and fixed subtle spec/bug issues in OpenTelemetry Python and Django-Webpack integrations. He combines systems-level performance tuning with full-stack experience—having implemented Django-webpack loader features and added dynamic config sources for Zookeeper/Etcd—making him as comfortable optimizing GC pressure in high-throughput services as he is shipping web integrations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, test-driven solutions that bridge operational reliability and developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Green Valley Educational Institute
Stackoverflow
688reputation
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Github Skills (39)
observability10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
testing10
configuration-management10
command-line-interface10
memory-management10
zookeeper10
zipkin10
webpack10
go10
performance-optimization10
optimisation10
webpacker10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
django-webpack/django-webpack-loader
May 2015 - Mar 2021
Transparently use webpack with django
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 6 reviews, 125 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Owais's contributions primarily focused on the development and maintenance of the Django-webpack-loader project. They implemented core features such as loading webpack bundles and chunks within Django templates. The user also worked on improving the project by adding support for CSS files, fixing template tag bugs, and refactoring paths. The user also added tests and improved the codebase to work on python 3.
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open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
OpenTelemetry Python API and SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 528 reviews, 68 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Owais primarily focused on improving the functionality and correctness of the Zipkin exporter for OpenTelemetry Python. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to the `debug` field and ensuring proper handling of the field per the Zipkin specification. Additionally, the user introduced a bootstrap command for the automatic installation of packages. Their work also included adding auto-instrumentation support for Elasticsearch and adding a feature that allows users to set attributes from Django and Falcon requests.
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