Dakota Paasman
Senior Software Engineer at Dynatrace
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolDakota Paasman is a Senior Software Engineer with three years of hands-on experience building scalable observability platforms and distributed systems, currently based in the Grand Rapids area. Skilled in Go and full-stack development, Dakota has driven core features from custom OpenTelemetry collector deployments to security and hierarchical architectures that improved SaaS scalability and performance. He is an active OpenTelemetry contributor—notably to the widely used opentelemetry-collector-contrib repo—where he implemented key parsing features, fixed Kafka receiver shutdown behavior, and added an OTTL ParseKeyValue function with tests. Comfortable partnering with enterprise customers, resolving production incidents, and mentoring teammates, Dakota combines pragmatic engineering with community-focused open-source work.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (9)
opentelemetry10
go10
testing10
configuration-management9
kafka8
algorithms8
algorithm8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Mar 2023 - May 2026
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 17 PRs, 83 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Dakota primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository by implementing and refining features within the stanza package. They focused on addressing bugs related to the Key Value Parser, including custom pair delimiters, and contributed an OTTL function `ParseKeyValue`. Their work involved modifying existing code, adding new functionality for parsing, and creating corresponding tests to ensure the correct behavior of the implemented features. Additionally, the user contributed to the opampsupervisor project with a focus on configuration parameters, and fixed shutdown behavior of the kafka receiver.
opentelemetry-collectoropentelemetryopen-telemetry
dpaasman00/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Mar 2023 - Jul 2026
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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