Dan Blanco
Principal Strategic Solutions Architect
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDan Blanco is a Principal Strategic Solutions Architect with 11 years of engineering experience, now helping organisations craft observability strategies at New Relic while serving on the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee. He blends hands-on systems engineering—from AWS, Kubernetes and telemetry pipelines to front-end RUM optimisation—with leadership in driving organisation-wide best practices and developer enablement. Previously at Skyscanner he led observability and operational maturity efforts, improving monitoring, debugging and cost-efficiency for large-scale cloud-native services. His background spans startups to research institutions (including CERN) and includes building automated onboarding, instrumentation and data pipelines in diverse tech stacks. Known for translating complex telemetry needs into practical workshops, tooling and standards, he quietly excels at making observability accessible to every engineer.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Universidade de VigoMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Washington State University
Spanish, English, Galician, French
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Github Skills (135)
telegraf10
opentelemetry-collector10
jaeger10
opentelemetry10
microservices10
xpath10
influxdb10
monitoring10
mqtt10
golang10
json10
observability10
kafka10
opentelemetry-go10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
danielgblanco/community
Dec 2023 - Jun 2026
OpenTelemetry community content
Contributions:2 PRs, 99 pushes, 59 branches in 2 years 6 months
opentelemetry
danielgblanco/diaspora-aws
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Set up and manage your diaspora* environment in AWS
Contributions:36 commits, 32 PRs, 26 pushes in 7 months
aws
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