Julien Pivotto
Principal Software Architect & CoFounder at Inuits
Antwerp Metropolitan Area Belgium
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Julien Pivotto is a Principal Software Architect, co-founder of O11y, and a 19-year veteran focused on open-source observability and infrastructure. A long-time Prometheus maintainer, he has contributed UI, backend, and exporter improvements across the Prometheus ecosystem and helped harden projects like Alertmanager, node_exporter, Thanos/Cortex, and Grafana Mimir. He combines hands-on Go development, DevOps and security-minded engineering—adding TLS, auth, HTTP/2 support and CI/CD improvements—to make monitoring software production-ready at scale. Julien also brings deep Puppet, Terraform and cloud provider experience from roles at Atos, Nokia and as an open-source consultant at Inuits. He authors and leverages the latest edition of “Prometheus Up & Running” and runs a company that provides premium support and custom development for observability stacks. Based in Antwerp, he pairs practical operational experience with public speaking and community-driven documentation work that keeps projects usable for real-world teams.
19 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Informatique, Informatique at Université catholique de LouvainLPIC-1, Administrateur réseau certifié Linux et Windows, LPIC-1, Administrateur réseau certifié Linux et Windows at Technifutur, LiègeLinux, Réseaux hétérogènes, Linux, Réseaux hétérogènes at IFOSUP Wavre
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Github Skills (128)
dependency-management10
go-modules10
cloud-computing10
testing10
plugin-development10
rspec10
http10
authentication10
bash10
grafana10
terraform10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
ruby10
javas10
Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
voxpupuli/puppet-corosync
Jan 2014 - Oct 2017
Sets up and manages Corosync.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 releases, 185 commits, 204 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to improving and fixing the functionality of the Puppet Corosync module, specifically addressing depreciation warnings and compatibility issues. They refactored code to support newer Puppet versions and updated tests. The user also implemented the Pacemaker provider and made significant changes to the cs_primitive resource to support features such as manage_target_role. The user made heavy use of provider, and CIB commands, showing a focus on the module's core infrastructure.
corosynclinux-puppet-modulepuppetcentos-puppet-moduledebian-puppet-module
grafana-cold-storage/grafonnet-lib
Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
Jsonnet library for generating Grafana dashboard files.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 209 commits, 190 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Julien Pivotto's contributions focused on building out core functionality within the `grafonnet-lib` repository. They began by creating initial dashboard and timepicker components. Further development included adding support for templates, rows, and graph panels, along with associated tests. Additionally, they implemented Prometheus target integration and added support for single stat panels and various customization options.
grafana-dashboardjsonnet
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