Staffan Friberg
Principal Architect Manager SRE at Aviatrix
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
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Top SchoolStaffan Friberg is a Principal Architect and SRE leader with over a decade building performance, observability, and reliability platforms for enterprise-scale cloud services. He has led cross-functional teams through major migrations and technology shifts—from Mesos to Kubernetes and InfluxDB to Prometheus—and driven company-wide initiatives like Java upgrades, distributed tracing adoption, and thread-management rewrites to improve stability and developer productivity. Based in the Urbana-Champaign area, he blends deep JVM and performance engineering roots from Oracle and BEA with hands-on SRE and observability leadership at Medallia, Matillion, and now Aviatrix. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex operational challenges into repeatable, automated practices that reduce toil and enable confident product delivery. An early founder and long-time contributor to performance engineering communities, he combines systems-level curiosity with pragmatic team-building to scale both platforms and organizations.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
M Sc Computer Science, M Sc Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Swedish, English
Github Skills (47)
observability10
distributed-tracing10
instrumentation10
java10
sdk10
opencensus10
java-agent10
opentelemetry10
trace10
otel10
javascript9
monitoring9
apm9
opentracing9
site-reliability-engineering9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sfriberg/opentelemetry-java
Nov 2019 - Jul 2022
OpenTelemetry Java SDK
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
tracingobservabilitysdkopentelemetry-javadistributed-tracing
sfriberg/perf-jitdump-agent
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 6 months
perfagentjvmtilinuxlinux-perf
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