Yang Hu
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Hu is a Software Development Engineer II with seven years of experience building cloud-native observability and backend systems at Amazon and AWS. He has deep hands-on expertise in Prometheus ecosystem tooling—contributing a Prometheus Remote Write exporter to the OpenTelemetry Collector and Collector Contrib projects to enable Cortex-compatible metric ingestion. At Amazon he worked across Amazon Music and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, focusing on scalable telemetry pipelines and metric conversion between OTLP and Prometheus formats. Yang combines rigorous testing and configuration/factory design with practical handling of metric types, histograms, units and headers to ensure interoperable telemetry flows. Based in Seattle, he brings strong open-source credibility from high-impact contributions to widely used projects like OpenTelemetry. Colleagues rely on him for production-ready integrations that bridge open-source standards and cloud services.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (13)
opentelemetry10
configuration-management10
exports10
go10
prometheus10
go-testing10
telemetry10
exporter10
metric10
testing10
apidoc9
observability9
api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 21 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yang's primary contribution revolves around the implementation of a Prometheus Remote Write Exporter for the OpenTelemetry Collector. Their work involved creating the necessary configuration and factory components, along with thorough testing to ensure functionality. The user integrated this exporter to support Cortex, including adding functionalities such as handling different metric types, converting between different units, and adding headers. This feature addition allows the collector to send telemetry data to compatible backends for storage and analysis.
opentelemetry-collectoropentelemetryopen-telemetrytelemetrymetrics
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 commit, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:Yang's primary contribution involves the development and integration of a Prometheus Remote Write Exporter within the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository. This includes implementing the exporter's configuration and factory, as well as associated testing to ensure correct functionality. The user focused on converting metrics to Prometheus remote write format, handling both scalar and histogram metrics. Furthermore, the user added the functionality to handle metrics from Int64 and Double OTLP formats.
opentelemetry-collectoropentelemetryopen-telemetry
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