Stuart Nelson
Senior Software Engineer at Elastic
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarStuart Nelson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building reliable, observable backend systems and developer tooling. He has strong hands-on expertise in monitoring and instrumentation, contributing to flagship open-source projects like Prometheus (adding telemetry across rule evaluations, reloads and scrape syncs) and the Prometheus Go client. At Elastic he enhanced APM and server resiliency, instrumenting AWS SDK calls and improving timeout/error handling while also shipping Elasticsearch metrics. His background spans SRE and anti-abuse leadership at SoundCloud through product-focused engineering roles at DigitalOcean, giving him a practical blend of systems-level C work and full-stack UI improvements (Alertmanager routing-tree visualizations). Known for improving visibility and robustness in distributed systems, he often pairs low-level OS integrations with user-facing monitoring features.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (57)
monitoring10
timeseries-database10
javascript10
dragonfly10
dragonflybsd10
data-collection10
system-programming10
amazon-sqs10
amazon-sns10
distributed-tracing10
aws-sqs-fifo10
http10
graphite10
time-series10
c1110
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus/alertmanager
Apr 2016 - Feb 2020
Prometheus Alertmanager
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 358 commits, 428 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Stuart's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Alertmanager UI. They implemented routing-tree visualization and addressed several bugs in its functionality, specifically related to correct rendering of routing logic and handling of alerts. Furthermore, the user added and enhanced functionality of the silence-related views by implementing features such as the ability to preview affected alerts. The contributions also included refactoring code and adding new features, while improving the application's UI.
opsgenieprometheus-exporterpagerdutyemaildeduplication
prometheus/docs
Dec 2014 - Dec 2018
Prometheus documentation: content and static site generator
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 16 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily focused on enhancing the documentation and web tools within the Prometheus project. Their contributions include making spacing changes to the main page of the documentation, implementing a routing tree editor for Alertmanager configurations, and modifying the CSS and HTML files. They also addressed errors in the tree creation and parsing of labels, ensuring accurate rendering of the routing tree and parsing of label sets.
prometheus-exporterstatic-sitesite-generatorprometheusprometheus-documentation
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