AJ Danelz
Cloud-Native | Full-Stack Dev | Developer & OSS Advocate 🥑
I am a full-stack cloud application engineer and developer advocate passionate about distributed cloud applications. I am a golang enthusiast trapped in a Java dev’s body. I have been a cloud-native aficionado since the moment I learned there was a world outside of VMs and server racks. My passions for event streaming and microservices fit nicely in the cloud. I love working for a global company, working with both technical and non-technical team members. I have served in a leadership role for the majority of my development career. In any role, I will contribute to the success of a software project by advocating internally and externally for all developers.
OSS Maintainer
OSS Contributor
mqtt-simulator | zilla | grpc.io | exercism.io | vuepress/core | wso2/k8s | hugo-wrapper | mattermost | open-telemetry | grafana/alloy | awesome-kafka
Recent Posts
The Mikado Method in the Age of AI Agents
A 2014 technique for navigating legacy codebases turns out to be a near-perfect framework for governing AI coding agents, once you account for the fact that AI-generated code is essentially free.Understanding Schemas and Message Types in Enterprise Data Integration
Exploring OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, Schema Registry, OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions, EDI, and More - A Learning Resource for Technical Product ManagersWhy are Protobufs not more popular? - WIP
Protobuf schemas get overlooked because most developers have only ever worked with JSONBuilding a User-Facing Audit Log Archive on OpenTelemetry and DuckDB | Rough Draft
How to filter business events from raw OpenTelemetry telemetry, store them in tiered object storage, and make them searchable with DuckDB — no vendor lock-in and no per-query cost.Effective management
Your growth can happen in spite of a bad manager, or because of a good one.the latter.Home Network Layout
10G backed home setupMy DevRel Content Highlights
Higlighting some of the public things I have built or written down.Developer Relations Belongs in Product
Many others have said this, this is why I think they are right.Looking for a CNCF Job is hard
Searching for cloud native jobs on different job boards is hard.Organizing your Quickstart, Cookbooks, Examples, and Demos
How to organizing your Quickstart, Cookbooks, Examples, and Demos.