Stefan Kurek
Backend Engineer at Underdog
Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Kurek is a pragmatic backend engineer with 15+ years of hands-on software and firmware experience, currently focused on cloud-native observability and backend systems. He has driven production-grade OpenTelemetry work—contributing to the opentelemetry-collector-contrib repo and leading the design of OTEL-based solutions and opAMP remote management features—while mentoring teams and serving as primary technical liaison to large customers. His background spans embedded C and firmware (including patented capacitive touch work) through JVM, Go, and full-stack web stacks, giving him a rare ability to connect low-level constraints with distributed system design. Stefan excels at shipping integrations and tooling that standardize observability across complex environments, and he’s routinely entrusted to keep third-party OTEL wrappers and distro test suites working across releases. Based in the Grand Rapids area, he pairs a detail-oriented, investigative approach with a proven track record of delivering scalable, maintainable systems for both product and enterprise customers.
4 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Lawrence Technological University
Github Skills (4)
opentelemetry10
go10
sql9
mysql7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:281 reviews, 13 commits, 48 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Stefan contributed to the implementation of the SQL Server receiver, adding the necessary components to collect SQL Server metrics. Their work involved utilizing Windows performance counters to gather the required data. Furthermore, the user modified the code to change data types and other metric types, showcasing a focus on accuracy and data integrity. The changes primarily involved modifications to the generated metadata files and configuration.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
observIQ/opentelemetry-operations-collector
Feb 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 9 months
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