Pavol Loffay
Founder at CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPavol Loffay is a founder and principal software engineer with 11+ years specialising in cloud-native distributed systems, observability and open-source. He leads teams at Red Hat and contributes as a maintainer to CNCF projects like Jaeger and OpenTelemetry, with notable work on Grafana Tempo to improve high-volume trace search. Comfortable in both Java and Golang, he combines backend engineering with DevOps expertise—authoring operators, collectors and auto-instrumentation for Kubernetes and OpenShift. He also builds AI-native consumer products (Nunu Travel Guide) and consults on observability, showing a rare blend of product entrepreneurship and deep technical stewardship. Colleagues know him as an open-minded, community-focused engineer who prefers maintainable, high-quality code and occasionally hides easter eggs (hint: g4rb1).
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Brno University of TechnologyMaster's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Social Studies
English, Spanish, Slovak, French
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Github Skills (72)
dependency-management10
testing10
distributed-tracing10
microservices-application10
instrumentation10
grafana10
exporter10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
automation10
aws-elasticsearch10
jaeger10
opentelemetry10
elasticsearch10
microservices10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
opentracing-contrib/java-spring-cloud
Jul 2017 - Feb 2020
Distributed tracing for Spring Boot, Cloud and other Spring projects
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 64 commits, 201 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pavol primarily contributed to implementing and testing Spring Cloud-based tracing functionalities within the repository. Their commits focused on integrating OpenTracing with Spring Web applications, Feign clients, JMS messaging, and Hystrix commands. Key contributions include the instrumentation of various components, including scheduled tasks, and incorporating logging enhancements with span context information. They also worked on dependency management, build configurations, and test case improvements to enhance the reliability and completeness of the tracing features.
hystrixrxjavajdbcmongodbresttemplate
jaegertracing/jaeger-kubernetes
May 2017 - May 2020
Support for deploying Jaeger into Kubernetes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits, 59 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Pavol primarily focused on improving the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and testing infrastructure for Jaeger on Kubernetes. They introduced and refined the use of minikube for integration tests, added a Travis CI badge to the repository, and updated dependencies. Moreover, the user implemented and configured various scripts for installing, starting minikube, and building the project, which demonstrates a strong focus on automation and deployment workflows.
deployingtracingkubernetesopentracingjaeger
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