Mastering Distributed Tracing

Shkuro Yuri:
Dr. Yuri Shkuro holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, and a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from MEPhI (Moscow Engineering & Physics Institute), one of Russia's top three universities. Yuri is the author of many academic papers in the area of machine learning and neural networks, which have been cited in over 130 other publications. Yuris impressive career includes 15 years on Wall Street, building trading and risk management systems for derivatives at top investment banks, Goldman Sacks, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley, and over three years on Ubers Infrastructure & Observability team. His open-source credentials include being a co-founder and a member of the Specification Council of the OpenTracing project, and the creator and current tech lead of Jaeger, a distributed tracing system developed at Uber. Both projects are incubating at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Outside of his academic and professional career, Yuri was an editor and co-producer of several animated shorts directed by Lev Polyakov, including:Only Love (2008), which screened at over 30 film festivals and won several awardsPiper the Goat and the Peace Pipe (2005), a winner at the Ottawa International Animation Festival