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Kemal Akkoyun

SWE. Observability. Performance. Reliability. Tracing, metrics, profiling and eBPF. Helping to maintain projects in @prometheus and @open-telemetry

Berlin

Website

@kakkoyun_me

Joined December 2010

673 Followers

618 Following

AI Insights & Achievements

58/ 100

Growth

21 new projects with 7 stars.

Consistency

109 day streak.

Veteran

Coding for 16 years.

Profile README

Software Infrastructure Engineer | System Programmer | Performance Engineer. Obsessed with Observability, Instrumentation, and low-level programming. 🤔 Slow thinker. Open Source Enthusiast. Mentor (CNCF LFX, Google Summer of Code, CommunityBridge, GoBridge). Blogger and speaker. Introverted Human (not Cylon, I guess). 😄 Pronouns: He/Him

🔭 Deep in the trenches of Go runtime and compiler internals, building AST manipulation tools for injecting instrumentation systems. Working on Go instrumentation and profiling at Datadog APM. Keeping a soft spot for profiling while tinkering with Go and its toolchain. 🌱 Exploring engineering leadership, LLM internals, and automating Personal Knowledge Management with Claude Code and MCPs.

Current Projects

OpenTelemetry Go Compile Instrumentation - Prototype compile-time instrumentation for Go, exploring zero-touch observability
Datadog Orchestrion - Source-based compile-time instrumentation for Go, enabling deep APM without manual code changes
Datadog dd-trace-go - Datadog APM tracing client for Go
Prometheus client_golang - Prometheus instrumentation library for Go applications

Hobby Tech

Raspberry Pi cluster experiments | Flipper Zero hardware hacking | Gravel cycling adventures

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Learn more at kakkoyun.me/about

From: 03 January 2026 - To: 10 January 2026

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Further details wakatime.com/@kemal

✍️ Blog posts

talk: Unleashing the Go Toolchain August 15, 2025
Vibe Coding with Cursor: My R&D Week Adventure 🚀 March 12, 2025
FOSDEM 2025: Blimey, What a Weekend! February 4, 2025
When Hustle Culture and Personal Values Collide: Lessons from My AI/ML Startup Journey October 16, 2024
I left Polar Signals or A new chapter in my professional journey March 18, 2024

For more visit kakkoyun.me/posts

📝 Notes

🎤 Talks

	Unleashing the Go Toolchain - Kemal Akkoyun `September 18, 2025`
	FOSDEM 2024 - Profiling Python with eBPF: A New Frontier in Performance Analy... `February 6, 2024`
	Prometheus Updates and Deep Dive - Kemal Akkoyun, Polar Signals & Bryan Boreh... `May 1, 2023`
	Making Go More Efficient (Go Time Live!) `December 7, 2022`
	PromCon EU 2022: Best Practices and Pitfalls of Instrumenting Your Cloud-Nati... `November 24, 2022`