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Andy Aylward

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Andy Aylward

Andy contributed to the modernization and stabilization of the OpenTelemetry C++ build process, focusing on Bazel-based workflows in the bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry and open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp repositories. Over two months, Andy delivered features enabling static linking for the HTTP client using cURL, improving Linux build stability and ensuring compatibility across Bazel versions 7 to 9. By upgrading build configurations to C++17 and introducing rules_foreign_cc for foreign library integration, Andy enhanced portability and reproducibility. The work demonstrated depth in C++ development, Bazel build system configuration, and dependency management, resulting in more deterministic builds and a clear path toward production-ready binary stability.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

100%Features

Repository Contributions

2Total
Bugs
0
Commits
2
Features
2
Lines of code
103
Activity Months2

Work History

February 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Feb 1, 2026

Monthly summary for 2026-02 focused on delivering a key build-system modernization feature within open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp, enabling static linking and preparing the codebase for future dependency integrations. The changes improve portability, reproducibility, and integration of foreign libraries, with a clear path toward production-ready binary stability.

January 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 summary: Delivered a major OpenTelemetry C++ release (1.24.0.bcr.1) into bazel-central-registry with Bazel compatibility across versions 7–9 and a build-stability improvement on Linux through a static linking patch for the HTTP client (cURL). Updated metadata/dependencies to reflect the new version and ensured clear traceability via a single commit (5b5bd633ba7cb29976d918940df4e8b05fa31cc2).

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Quality Metrics

Correctness90.0%
Maintainability80.0%
Architecture80.0%
Performance80.0%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BazelC++YAML

Technical Skills

Bazel build systemC++ developmentDependency managementbuild system configurationdependency management

Repositories Contributed To

2 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

bazelbuild/bazel-central-registry

Jan 2026 Jan 2026
1 Month active

Languages Used

BazelC++

Technical Skills

C++ developmentbuild system configurationdependency management

open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp

Feb 2026 Feb 2026
1 Month active

Languages Used

C++YAML

Technical Skills

Bazel build systemC++ developmentDependency management