Rafael Roquetto
Senior Software Engineer at OpenTelemetry
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Roquetto is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in systems and observability with two decades of experience spanning modern C++, embedded platforms, Linux internals, and cloud-native tooling. He currently helps lead Grafana Beyla’s eBPF-based auto-instrumentation work in Go and C, and serves as an approver and contributor to the OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation project, shaping zero-code tracing for distributed systems. His background building low-latency media pipelines, real-time tracing subsystems, and embedded UI stacks gives him a rare kernel-to-application perspective that he applies to performance optimization and resilient instrumentation. Rafael is fluent in eBPF, OpenTelemetry, Go, modern C++, Qt, and kernel-space programming, and he routinely balances production-safe, low-overhead design with practical edge-case handling for high-throughput services. Based in Calgary, he also mentors contributors and drives community adoption, bridging vendor projects and upstream standards. An often-overlooked strength is his history maintaining platform ports (QNX/Qt) and packaging constraints, which informs pragmatic, cross-platform engineering decisions.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at FEI
Portuguese, English, Swedish, German, Italian
Github Skills (26)
monitoring10
podman10
docker10
observability10
seccomp10
ebpf10
grafana10
opentelemetry-collector10
collector10
runc10
prometheus10
extent10
specification10
opentelemetry10
spawning10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelroquetto/arkanoid
May 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
rafaelroquetto/beyla
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
eBPF-based autoinstrumentation of web applications and network metrics
Contributions:15 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
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