
Rodrigo Pastrana contributed to the hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform repository by engineering features that advanced observability, performance, and reliability across distributed systems. He developed managed observability Helm charts to automate deployment of Elastic Stack and OpenTelemetry Collector, enabling scalable monitoring for HPCC clusters. Using C++ and YAML, Rodrigo optimized telemetry and tracing, reduced log processing overhead, and improved health reporting APIs for analytics plugins. His work included robust error handling, end-to-end trace context propagation, and enhancements to testing infrastructure. These solutions addressed real-world operational challenges, reduced debugging time, and strengthened system monitoring, reflecting a deep understanding of backend development and DevOps practices.

In October 2025, delivered the Roxie Original Requester Tracking feature for the hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform, enabling provenance of the original requester by honoring HTTP headers X-Forwarded-For and X-Client-ID. The change initializes the X-Forwarded-For chain with the peer address and adds support for a _client header format for non-HTTP requests, complemented by in-file unit tests in the ccdprotocol scope to validate the new behavior. The work is tracked under HPCC-35194 with commit 4117c846f423f879fddbf655abefee2b588a77ff.
In October 2025, delivered the Roxie Original Requester Tracking feature for the hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform, enabling provenance of the original requester by honoring HTTP headers X-Forwarded-For and X-Client-ID. The change initializes the X-Forwarded-For chain with the peer address and adds support for a _client header format for non-HTTP requests, complemented by in-file unit tests in the ccdprotocol scope to validate the new behavior. The work is tracked under HPCC-35194 with commit 4117c846f423f879fddbf655abefee2b588a77ff.
July 2025 performance summary for hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform: Delivered major observability and telemetry enhancements to strengthen monitoring, incident response, and security. Key features include Filebeat-based log shipping for improved log collection, SSL support for the Elasticsearch client, and enriched SoapCall tracing attributes for end-to-end visibility; plus improved Azure Log Analytics token error handling and secret masking for health reports. Expanded ECLWatch observability with external service links for traces/logs, a new resource type enum, and configuration patterns for self-reporting annotations. Documentation and README improvements were completed for eck4hpccobservability and related components, covering prerequisites, installation prompts, correct repos, jtrace configuration, and maintenance notes. These changes enhance visibility, reliability, and onboarding for operators and developers.
July 2025 performance summary for hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform: Delivered major observability and telemetry enhancements to strengthen monitoring, incident response, and security. Key features include Filebeat-based log shipping for improved log collection, SSL support for the Elasticsearch client, and enriched SoapCall tracing attributes for end-to-end visibility; plus improved Azure Log Analytics token error handling and secret masking for health reports. Expanded ECLWatch observability with external service links for traces/logs, a new resource type enum, and configuration patterns for self-reporting annotations. Documentation and README improvements were completed for eck4hpccobservability and related components, covering prerequisites, installation prompts, correct repos, jtrace configuration, and maintenance notes. These changes enhance visibility, reliability, and onboarding for operators and developers.
May 2025 monthly summary for hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform: Delivered a backwards-compatible fix to the Log Format field for legacy clients. Change GetLogsRequest.Format and LogAccessFilter.Format from enum LogAccessLogFormat to string to prevent issues caused by missing ESPenum qualifier and to allow legacy users to treat the field as a string, while keeping default values JSON and CSV. This targeted change reduces client-side failures in wslogaccess paths and improves interoperability with older tooling. Commit 4ecfa6a05c7f3997819ddeb1df9affd3240a1e66 (HPCC-34178).
May 2025 monthly summary for hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform: Delivered a backwards-compatible fix to the Log Format field for legacy clients. Change GetLogsRequest.Format and LogAccessFilter.Format from enum LogAccessLogFormat to string to prevent issues caused by missing ESPenum qualifier and to allow legacy users to treat the field as a string, while keeping default values JSON and CSV. This targeted change reduces client-side failures in wslogaccess paths and improves interoperability with older tooling. Commit 4ecfa6a05c7f3997819ddeb1df9affd3240a1e66 (HPCC-34178).
Monthly performance summary for 2025-04 focusing on HPCC-Platform. Highlights include new observability features, improved diagnostics, and alignment with OpenTelemetry interfaces to enhance performance visibility, reliability, and developer efficiency.
Monthly performance summary for 2025-04 focusing on HPCC-Platform. Highlights include new observability features, improved diagnostics, and alignment with OpenTelemetry interfaces to enhance performance visibility, reliability, and developer efficiency.
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