As a principal engineer at Grafana Labs, my focus is on OpenTelemetry: writing code or maintaining OTel Collector components and tooling, helping out with our recent security audit, and building bridges between people with similar ideas — all with the ultimate goal of helping the OTel community, as a whole, succeed. For nearly three years now, I’ve also been a member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee (GC). I was first elected in October 2021, and then re-elected in October 2023 fo...