Paolo Gallina
Lead Software Engineer at New Relic
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolPaolo Gallina is a Lead Software Engineer based in Turin with seven years of experience building cloud-native observability and CI/CD tooling at New Relic. He has driven major releases such as nri-kubernetes and led the Core Integrations team while maintaining 20+ open-source repositories and shipping Prometheus-based products. His hands-on background spans Go, Java, Kubernetes, Helm, and automation pipelines, with early roles in GCP support and Linux/VMware operations informing a pragmatic ops-to-code approach. Notably, he contributes to the prominent OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib project, improving receivers, metrics, and release validation—evidence of deep involvement in the observability ecosystem and its CI/CD practices.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Laurea Magistrale LM Ingegneria informatica, Laurea Magistrale LM Ingegneria informatica at Politecnico di Torino
English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (8)
opentelemetry10
go10
cicd10
prometheus9
docker8
dockers8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 2 commits, 9 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Paolo contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository by implementing features and fixing bugs related to vCenter receiver and Prometheus receiver. They added new memory metrics and corrected code behavior in the dockerstats receiver. Furthermore, the user enhanced the codebase by adding version and name to metrics and validating versioning in the release preparation process, showing involvement in the CI/CD pipeline. Their contributions involved code changes across multiple components of the OpenTelemetry Collector.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
newrelic/release-toolkit
Oct 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:8 releases, 57 reviews, 29 PRs in 2 years 2 months
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