Pablo Collins
Staff Software Engineer at Cisco (Splunk)
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPablo Collins is a Staff Software Engineer with over two decades of experience designing and shipping backend systems, real-time platforms, simulation engines, and polished user interfaces. He excels at relentless simplification—breaking complex problems into small, composable pieces and building test harnesses and simulators to make those reductions verifiable. At Splunk/Cisco he’s a core contributor and reviewer for OpenTelemetry Python and the author of OtelTest, and his open-source work includes key Collector components and a resilient Redis receiver in the widely used OpenTelemetry Collector projects. He led backend architecture for PrecisionHawk’s LATAS drone monitoring platform, halving the codebase while supporting live drone operations and NASA UTM scenarios. Comfortable across product and infrastructure, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an emphasis on developer experience and maintainability, and is an early practitioner of AI-assisted development to boost productivity and quality. Based in Apex, NC, he blends studio-grade UI delivery from film production with enterprise-grade observability and distributed systems expertise.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., B.A. at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (18)
data-collection10
redis10
testing10
instrumentation10
java10
javas10
go10
opentelemetry10
collections10
metric10
test-automation10
data-structure9
configuration-management9
error-handling9
data-structures9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
signalfx/splunk-otel-collector
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:268 reviews, 51 commits, 129 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Pablo's commits primarily focus on instrumenting Java applications, specifically integrating a java agent. Their work involves modifying source code to include automatic instrumentation, incorporating the agent path and setting up the OpenTelemetry resource attributes. Additionally, the user has worked on configuration files and build scripts for the auto-instrumentation to enhance the automatic instrumentation process. These changes likely contribute to automating the collection and export of telemetry data.
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:218 reviews, 41 commits, 63 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pablo primarily worked on developing and refining a Redis receiver within the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository. Their contributions included implementing the core functionality of the receiver, such as fetching metrics from a Redis instance. They also focused on improving the receiver's resilience through error handling and thread safety, while also making organizational and code quality improvements. Furthermore, the user addressed issues such as metric type correctness.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
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