I'm SVP of Product and Design at Spacelift, an infrastructure-as-code orchestration company, in Pompano Beach, FL. I own product direction across Deploy, Flows, and Spacelift Intelligence.

Before Spacelift I was at Paessler, Aiven, and Kentik, and I was CTO at Logz.io. At AppDynamics I worked through the S-1, the IPO, and the Cisco acquisition. At Gartner I led the APM Magic Quadrant, created the NPMD Magic Quadrant, and coined the term "Network Packet Broker."

I maintain Jaeger. I was on the founding team of OpenSearch and sit on its technical steering committee. I have run product, design, and engineering teams of 100+ people, and I still do technical work.

I scuba dive reefs and wrecks and take underwater photos. The code for that is in underwater-photo-processing, Barefoot-Dive (dive planning), and Barefoot-Blender (gas blending).

| Open source, end-to-end distributed tracing platform

Active maintainer and contributor helping organizations implement distributed tracing and observability at scale for microservices-based distributed systems.

| Open source distributed search and analytics engine

Member of the technical steering committee and part of the founding team for this powerful open source search and analytics platform, making advanced search capabilities accessible to everyone.

| Vendor-neutral observability framework

Regular community participant and contributor since the project's inception, driving the future of observability standards and tooling.

| Web interface for Jaeger distributed tracing

Building intuitive user experiences for complex observability data.

I'm always interested in discussing:

• 💡 Observability and monitoring strategies
• 🌐 Open source collaboration opportunities
• 🚀 Cloud-native architectures
• 📈 Technology leadership and team building

Feel free to reach out via Twitter/X, LinkedIn, or email!