What is OpenTelemetry?

Creator of Pyroscope — open source continuous profiling platform

Marylia is a Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, working on the OpenTelemetry project. She is a contributor to OpenTelemetry SDKs, Semantic Conventions, and Contributor Experience. Marylia has also spoken at various conferences, such as DevOpsDays, GopherCon, and the Symposium on Databases. Before joining Grafana Labs, she was an Engineering Manager and Full Stack Developer at various companies, with a focus on Observability.

Richard "RichiH" Hartmann is the Director of Community at Grafana Labs, Prometheus team member, OpenMetrics founder, OpenTelemetry member, CNCF Technical Advisory Group Observability chair, CNCF Technical Oversight Committee member, CNCF Governing Board member, and more. He also leads or organizes various conferences, including PromCon, FOSDEM, DENOG, DebConf, and Chaos Communication Congress. In the past, he made mainframe databases work, ISP backbones run, freenode work, and designed and built a datacenter from scratch. Go through his talks at https://github.com/RichiH/talks or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TwitchiH for musings on the intersection of technology and society.

Juraci Paixão Kröhling is a software engineer at Grafana Labs and a contributor to the OpenTelemetry project. He has talked about distributed tracing at conferences like KubeCon, OpenSource Summit, FOSDEM, Devoxx, JavaLand, GIDS, among others.

Ryan is an Indiana native who made the transition from business to coding after working in corporate jobs. After completing a coding bootcamp, they moved to Oakland, CA, and have since worked at startups, co-founded an OSS startup (Pyroscope), and successfully merged it with Grafana Phlare. In their free time, they enjoy basketball, video games (especially Smash Bros!), cooking, and indulging in some guilty pleasure reality TV.

Mario is a Software Engineer at Grafana Labs and maintainer of Grafana Tempo. Mario is a contributor to the OpenTelemetry collector and code owner of the service graph connector.

Dr. Fabian Stäber is engineering manager and observability enthusiast at Grafana. He is a member of the Prometheus open source project, where he is maintainer of the Prometheus Java client library and the JMX exporter. At Grafana Fabian has his focus on application observability with OpenTelemetry.

Goutham is a Prometheus maintainer with experience maintaining the TSDB. After spending many years helping build and run the hosted Prometheus service at Grafana, he recently transitioned to product management, managing the Application Observability and OpenTelemetry products. He still hasn't lost the itch to code, and continues to contribute to Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and other open source observability tools.

Gregor Zeitlinger has worked most of his career as an enterprise software Java developer. He worked in startups and large companies in topics ranging from eBooks and eCommerce to API management and SRE. He is now software engineer at Grafana Labs and contributor to the OpenTelemetry project.