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emdneto

Emídio is extremely active in the community, helping to organize events and disseminate CNCF software,also collaborating on the Open Telemetry open-source code.

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jpkrohling

Juraci does a lot of "chop wood and carry water" work in the OTel Collector. He is always patient when answering questions, and passionate about the success of OpenTelemetry.

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joaofbantunes

He's a tech content creator and I was introduced to OpenTelemetry with him. Most of what I know about was regarding the projects and POCs that he has created.

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serkan-ozal

Serkan has taken the time to learn as much as he can about OpenTelemetry and make contributions to improving the SDK support as well as identify bugs and push the fixes through.

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ralf0131

Huxing Zhang actively contributes to the OTel community, especially in APAC areas. Initiating bi-weekly meetings tailored for the APAC community within the Java SIG. Leading Alibaba Cloud's contributions to the OpenTelemetry project. Driving the donation of the Golang compile-time instrumentation to OpenTelemetry. Helping to establish the SIG for Go compile-time instrumentation. Speaking at KubeCon China, as well as presenting at OpenTelemetry Community Days NA. Advocating for the donation of GraalVM native image support for the OpenTelemetry Java agent. Driving adoption of OpenTelemetry within Alibaba Cloud. Facilitating native support for OpenTelemetry in various cloud services, including load balancers, ingress gateways, and backend services.

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codeboten

Longtime and excellent collector contributions.

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codeboten

Seems to be working on everything, everywhere, and is very supportive.

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martinjt

Martin does a great job at bringing the community together, supporting end-user queries in Slack, evangelizing OTel, and contributing to the project.

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jaydeluca

jaydeluca is an amazing contributor helping wherever they can, from Java to Docs, always great to see jaydeluca contributing!

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svrnm

He has been a consistent contributor to OTel and also an amazing mentor during the recent outreachy Contribution phase.� � Always willing to help, answer questions and support applicants and intending interns to the OTel community.

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avillela

Adriana is the heart and soul of the OTel end-user SIG. It would not be the same at all without her. This is incredibly useful to bring awareness of OTel best practices and ensure wide adoption.

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serkan-ozal

Thanks to his valuable contributions, I became aware of OpenTelemetry and started following it.

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pichlermarc

Gets so much done in JS, works hard to be supportive and is also very productive.

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zmrfzn

He worked on many tools and contributed to OpenTelemetry. He explained in many conferences and meetup about OpenTelemetry.

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edmocosta

edmocosta has stepped up to solve a complex OTTL issue that is blocking the move to beta. They have stuck with the work over 3 months and been excellent to work with.

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maeddes

Matthias Haeussler has given talks at numerous conferences about observability and specifically including OpenTelemetry in these talks (Devoxx UK 23, Devoxx Greece 24, Devoxx FR 24, KubeCon China 23, KubeCon EU 23, Cloud Native Rejekts 24, √òredev 24, and more) Tutorial: A Hitchhiker's Guide to CNCF/OSS Observability So... Matthias Haeussler & Tiffany Jernigan � � He and two coworkers of his also created a training which is now part of the LinuxFoundation: http://github.com/lftraining/LFS148-code/ https://trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org/learn/course/getting-started-with-opentelemetry-lfs148/ and taught Otel workshops at multiple Devoxx conferences (Belgium, Poland etc).

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tbuchaillot

Chief implementer of OpenTelemetry at Tyk integrating it into the Tyk API gateway.� �He has also conducted numerous demos with prospects, clients and internal developers to drive adoption and better understanding.

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danielgblanco

His tenacity in advocating for OTel both within Skyscanner and outside has been remarkable. Dan is a force to be reckoned with and is not just great at getting people to buy in to this kind of tooling, but also supports in getting it done.

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theletterf

theletterf is an amazing maintainer for the OpenTelemetry documentation. He brings in a lot of great wisdom from his years of being a technical writer.

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edsoncelio

He was able to get a whole new community of contributors for the Portuguese version of the website.

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serkan-ozal

Serkan is an expert in observability and monitoring area. He know the best ways to use OpenTelemetry and also has good contributions in OpenTelemetry open-source repositories

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hellobudha

Organized and hosted LEAP 2024 - the API observability conference, which showcased the power and value of OpenTelemetry for both decision-makers and implementers.� �Created the API observability fundamentals certification with OTel as a core concept. Delivered talks at OTel Community Days, Kubernetes Community Days Washington DC, DevOpsDays, GraphQL Conference 2024 and All Things Open, showcasing how OTel can address critical challenges for Platform teams.

He is also a key advocate of OTel adoption at Tyk as a critical part of its API gateway (together with Sonja Chevre). He won't shut up about it - which is probably a good thing in this case!

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svrnm

Severin is super dedicated to open source in general and OpenTelemetry in particular. He picked up the slack this year when other maintainers and approvers were unavailable to help. He took on the role of mentoring in the Outreachy program single-handedly and has guided dozens of participants with patience and kindness. He's a big part of what makes OTel a great community.

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JamieDanielson

Jamie has become a leading voice behind the improvements in OTel-JS this last year. She joined as maintainer, and has corralled many priorities into a clear roadmap for the contributors to follow, making OTel-JS more a more consistent and better experience for the end-users. Jamie also regularly speaks about OpenTelemetry at conferences, raising up the community's knowledge and recruiting future contributors.

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zmrfzn

I first met Zameer during one of his observability talks last year. Since then, I've seen him consistently share valuable content about OpenTelemetry and advocate for it passionately through his talks. What really stood out to me was his willingness to travel all the way from Bengaluru to Gurugram just to give a talk on OTel. Beyond speaking engagements, he's contributed on the technical side with code samples and active participation in various forums. If I ever have a question about OTel, he's the go-to expert I trust.

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laurit

Lauri is one of the most helpful maintainers I've ever come across. When issues are raised or questions come up, he digs deep into them and provides guidance or solutions. He provides valuable insights in code reviews and makes contributing to the projects he maintains a great experience.

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serkan-ozal

Built magnificent tools for our company

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horovits

Dotan has his podcast on open observability, frequently shares about OpenTelemetry online, and has given conference talks as well

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Robbkidd

Robb is one of the few OTel-Ruby contributors and even when work priorities pull him away, he never steps away from his maintenance obligations. He wants OTel Ruby to be an excellent place for maintainers to come and work, and he takes his responsibilities to the community very seriously, always making sure other contributors are unblocked.

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starefossen

Observability evangelist for the public sector in Norway and a driving force behind the Norwegian government's adoption of OpenTelemetry as a vendor neutral standard for telemetry data. He also wrote a much shared blog article about their journey https://nais.io/blog/posts/otel-from-0-to-100/

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youngaaronm

Passionate about observability and is a leader in the mainframe OTel SIG.

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serkan-ozal

He started using open telemetry for monitoring in the company he works for. And he shares information about his open telemetry experience on his personal blogs.

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anunarapureddy

Had a chance to attend KubeCon and Anusha's session helped tremendously in evangelizing OTel at my company Salesforce. The workshop was well crafted. Anusha and Pavol interacted with the audience to answer all the questions patiently. We need more of these sessions.

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TylerHelmuth

Tyler has had a continuous drumbeat of contributions to OpenTelemetry over the years. He is one of the core authors of OTTL, and a maintainer of the Collector. In addition, Tyler does his best to advocate for the OTel community when it comes to making sure they are aware of potentially breaking semantic convention changes. This attention to our users helps make OpenTelemetry a more successful product.

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jmacd

Extended contributions over the course of many years to OTel and in particular, continuing to lead the sampling SIG and promote a robust sampling story for OTel.

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ymotongpoo

First, Yoshi made a huge contribution to Japanese translation of OTel docs. Also, he has given OTel related deepdive presentations in the community for project awareness.

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TylerHelmuth

Consistent, high quality, and cheerful work on the Collector in general and OTTL in particular.

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henrikrexed

His excellent podcast "Is it observable" has been a great resource in gaining an understanding of OpenTelemetry� �He has also delivered multiple talks across conferences and webinars to advocate for OTel

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maryliag

maryliag is a great contributor across many areas of the project. She helps with JavaScript, Contributor Experience and the Portuguese translation of the OpenTelemetry documentation. She deserves a lot of praise for running the Outreachy application phase with ~90 participants.

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trask

Supportive and good at driving topics forward while also keeping the peace.

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anunarapureddy

As a Software Engineer, I wanted to contemplate OTel but was not really sure where to start and this workshop really helped me to figure it out. At KubeCon I got a chance to talk to Anusha and we discussed a lot about OTel, which laid a strong foundation to initiate OTel. It was also really good to see women thrive in the software industry.

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serkan-ozal

Serkan is an industry expert (having previously built observability tools at OpsGenie and Co-founded Thundra.io, now an Architect at Catchpoint) and has been throwing his extensive observability expertise behind OTel. In the last year, he has published several articles and blog posts about OTel, and become a contributor and approver with several bug fixes, features, and tools contributed.

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katzchang

Kaz made a large effort for organizing OTel meetup in Tokyo this year. Also he has contributed to OTel docs Japanese translations as an approver.

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avillela

Community champion, she has written insightful blogs and tutorials on how to instrument applications with Otel. She has also delivered a bunch of awesome talks about OpenTelemetry.

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nfrankel

Very good YouTube video for more understanding the subject.

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jack-berg

Jack has taken on the job of revamping the Java documentation with an eye to creating a template that other language SIGs can follow. He has put in many hours of work that isn't glamorous, and he's been patient with the sometimes-slow responses from the Comms SIG. His efforts will make the OTel documentation significantly better, and that's no small thing.

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jack-berg

Jack's analytical thinking and sense of strategic direction is great for a project like OpenTelemetry. He's able to condense complex problems in pragmatic solutions and really I'd like to appreciate it with this nomination.

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trentm

Very thorough in researching bugs and solutions, and shares his thought process.

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RichardChukwu

He has contributed to multiple repos within the OTel community and has been an active member helping others during the just Outreachy contribution phase.� � Even though it was his first time Contributing to OTel, he really stood out and was valuable to the OTel community getting 7 PRs across multiple repos merged in just 4 weeks.

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anunarapureddy

She’s great at advocating for more women representation in tech.

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tiffany76

tiffany76 is an amazing technical writer and has helped to improve the OpenTelemetry documentation by writing some urgently required extensive documentation (like Collector Security guides) and by providing reviews for many contributions to the project.

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codeboten

Alex Boten contributes meaningfully to features, and progress of the whole OTel organization, but specifically in the collector. He is excellent at prioritizing work that helps OTel's users, while keeping abreast of industry standards.

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serkan-ozal

He’s a really good contributor.

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trask

Trask is one of the most friendly, hard working people I've encountered in open source. He is helpful, open minded, and makes an effort to make people feel heard and welcome.

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lquerel

I want to nominate Laurent for his incredible efforts in creating/working on OTel Weaver. Weaver has been replaced as the tooling for all things semantic conventions, and has made life of everyone much easier as well as set up the whole semantic conventions project to success. � � Laurent is very easy to work with, always respectful with others and always makes sure other opinions are heard and considered. He is also very good in keeping up with needs/features and prioritizing those.

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serkan-ozal

I am nominating Serkan because of his exceptional contributions, collaborative spirit, and dedication to open-source development. He consistently demonstrates technical expertise through innovative solutions, high-quality code, and meaningful pull requests that add value to the projects he participates in. Beyond his technical skills, Serkan actively engages with the community, offering support, mentorship, and guidance to both new and experienced developers alike. His commitment to best practices, including thorough documentation and testing, ensures the sustainability and growth of the projects he contributes to. Serkan exemplifies the principles of open source by fostering collaboration and creating impact through technology.

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anunarapureddy

Their presentation was quite insightful and clear. Very well thought and clearly explained.

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emdneto

I have participated in some discussions about OpenTelemetry in general that helped me to achieve a lot of answers to my questions

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ChrsMark

ChrsMark has been a huge help picking up the slack in the Collector's Kubernetes components and the Kubernetes semantic convention. These are important topics that others haven't been able to focus on that are now seeing life again.

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serkan-ozal

Improving telemetry use for AWS lambda that allows bring finally an optimized standard into the runtime.

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Jaronoff97

Jacob is an incredible developer and advocate for OpenTelemetry and Observability in general. I had the privilege working with him on OTel implementations and bringing back feedback from customers on the OTel Operator for Kubernetes. His willingness to hear feedback and work to make things simpler is a huge asset to the community. I am very happy to nominate him for an award.

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bidetofevil

He has driven multiple proposals for building on OTel for mobile and frontend more generally (mobile crash event proposal Mobile Crash Event Proposal Draft , client session outline Requirements for Client Session Support in OTel) while also contributing code to the project and built a large presence to make the community aware of these ideas (OTel Community Day, various podcasts).

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lmolkova

Explains reasonings clearly and helps break down nuanced discussion.

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nfrankel

They advocated for OpenTelemetry at different conferences and meetup groups.� � Here's a sample:� � * Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing by Nicolas Frankel � * Introduction pratique à OpenTelemetry pour les développeurs � * Nicolas Fränkel – Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing � * Devoxx Greece 2024 Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing for developers by Nicolas Frankel

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serkan-ozal

Serkan's effort to improve the technologies we use every day, especially for the community built around that technology, should be appreciated. I certainly do, and I would be very happy to see him recognized.

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JamieDanielson

Stepping up to help make JS and TS high quality solutions for OTel.

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kentquirk

Kent continues to contribute to the sampling SIG, driving the forward the community in best practices and knowledge of sampling. He is incredibly knowledgeable and not at all stingy in sharing that knowledge in a way that lifts up the community as a whole.

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trask

Trask does so much for OpenTelemetry, he works tirelessly across many initiatives in various projects and always works to bring the community together.

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serkan-ozal

I became aware of OpenTelemetry due to him; thus, OpenTelemetry earned a new community member.

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marcalff

marcalff is a very thoughtful and considered member and maintainer of the OpenTelemetry C++ project. marcalff is very outspoken if he sees issues in the project and is also relentless in bringing those issues to the attention of other groups like GC, Spec Sponsors, TC, etc.

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serkan-ozal

He has always been a key contributor to open-source projects and has extensive experience in distributed tracing, gained over many years.

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emdneto

Emidio is a truly passionate contributor for the OpenTelemetry python distribution, he is not only do code, but brings very important discussions to the table, also his passion evolves everyone around him, bringing more contributors to the OpenTelemetry community.

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zmrfzn

I have first hand seen the enormous effort Zameer puts in to all the initiatives and the work he does. He has great knowledge in OpenTelemetry and has attended his sessions as well. I have also collaborated with him for meetups, and really inspired by all his contributions to the community.

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maryliag

She has been a consistent contributor to OTel and also an amazing mentor during the recent outreachy contribution phase.� �Always willing to help, answer questions and support applicants and intending interns to the OTel community.

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serkan-ozal

He solved important and long-waiting deep issues in a short period after starting to contribute

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avillela

She's passionate about OTel and it shows in the feed of every tech community

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SonjaChevre

She was the chief advocate for OpenTelemetry adoption at Tyk. As the Group Product Manager, she led the integration of OTel into the Tyk API gateway. Additionally, she co-hosted Leap 2024 - the API observability conference reaching an audience of 1000 people through talks, workshops and panel discussions from 26 speakers and 19 sessions.

She actively created a pull request to expand the semantic conventions of OTel for GraphQL errors. She has delivered numerous talks at multiple conferences, including KubeCon 2023 and Kubernetes Community Days Austria. (Total audience: 2000)

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anunarapureddy

As a Software Engineer at Salesforce leveraging OpenTelemetry, I have firsthand experience of the significant impact Anusha's expertise has had on our work. Her session at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon provided a deep and practical understanding of OTel's capabilities, equipping me with the insights and tools needed to demonstrate POCs within my company, which ultimately securing funding for further observability initiatives. Anusha's dedication to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment was evident when she took the time after her session to answer my questions. Moreover, Anusha stands out as an advocate for diversity in tech. Her active engagement in the open-source and tech communities inspires more women to join and excel in the field, fostering a culture of mentorship and inclusion.�

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lmolkova

Liudmila has been a crucial member of many OTel SIGs and, as such, has made substantial impact in many areas such as stabilization of many semantic conventions areas (HTTP, Database, Messaging, GenAI). She is smart, thoughtful and always kind with fellow community members. It is really a joy working together with her!

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jpkrohling

Juraci had helped me a lot with several discussions involving opentelemetry collector. He helped me as individual and a lot with his content for free for the community in Brasil.

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anunarapureddy

Their talk helped me to understand what telemetry could enable us in debugging complex problems.

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bmiguel-teixeira

With his vision for a solution, we migrated the entire telemetry collection to OpenTelemetry, and today we have over 4,000 collectors live for all telemetry.

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