Speaker - Rafael Roquetto
Biography
Rafael is a software engineer who has been building systems software in C++ and contributing to open source projects since 2005. He is a maintainer of OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI), where he works on eBPF-based application observability and auto-instrumentation. Prior to OBI, he contributed to Grafana Beyla before its donation to the OpenTelemetry project.
Earlier in his career, Rafael worked extensively with the Qt project, serving as the maintainer of Qt's QNX integration plugin and contributing to QtCore, QtMultimedia, Qt Creator, and qmake. While at Blackmagic Design, he architected a declarative UI framework for the company's embedded real-time operating systems, laying the foundation for interfaces used across products including digital cinema cameras and ATEM switchers.
His work has often sat at the boundary between applications and operating systems, spanning embedded user interfaces, developer tools, kernel-level instrumentation, and observability systems that help explain what software is really doing.
Presentations
- eBPF Beyond Networking: Creative Uses of eBPF to Extend the Kernel Functionality – Friday 4:30 p.m.–5:15 p.m. in CEME 1210
- Dude, where did my tokens go? – Saturday 2 p.m.–2:45 p.m. in MCLD 3002
