Ross Golder is a seasoned Technical Consultant and DevOps engineer with 24 years' experience specialising in Linux systems, networking and infrastructure automation. He has designed and managed multi-datacenter networking and hybrid cloud systems across Southeast Asia, codifying provisioning and monitoring for bare-metal, routing equipment and cloud hosts. Ross led containerisation and migration efforts using Kubernetes and Terraform, improving operational efficiency and driving cost savings while owning backup, monitoring and incident response strategies. An active contributor to open-source observability tooling, he enhanced the Prometheus Python client’s pushgateway integration to support custom handlers and basic auth. Based in Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand, he blends hands-on command-line expertise with clear documentation and metrics-driven operations, and is known for proactively automating repeatable tasks and mentoring distributed teams.
Prometheus instrumentation library for Python applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Ross primarily contributed to the Prometheus client library for Python by implementing enhancements to the pushgateway integration. They added functionality to support custom handlers, basic authentication, and the passing of additional arguments to handlers. Code changes include modifying the `exposition.py`, `handlers/base.py`, and `handlers/basic_auth.py` files, demonstrating a focus on improving the library's interaction with the Prometheus push gateway.
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 3 years 11 months
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Ross Golder - Technical Consultant at R.O.S.S. Golder Ltd