Hi, I’m Pardha, a cloud native observability engineer based in Singapore.

I build the systems that tell engineers what their software is doing in production: distributed tracing, metrics and logs, collected at scale and turned into answers. Day to day that means OpenTelemetry instrumentation libraries, telemetry pipelines, and the Kubernetes platforms they run on.

What I work on

• OpenTelemetry: instrumentation libraries, auto-instrumentation and Collector pipelines that application teams use to monitor their services.
• Telemetry at scale: processing high volumes of trace, metric and log data across container and non-container workloads.
• Storage and analytics: ClickHouse, Prometheus, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Platform: Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Kafka.
• Languages: Go (my main focus now), Python, Java.

Background

I started in 2009 in middleware: WebSphere MQ and Message Broker administration and production support at TCS, IBM and Wipro. That taught me how production systems break, and how hard it is to see why. Since 2018 I have worked at Visa in Singapore, moving from systems engineering to platform engineering to observability, where I now design and build observability platforms.