Ben Sigelman

Ben Sigelman is the Co-Founder and General Manager at LightStep, a company that makes complex microservice applications more transparent and reliable. An expert in distributed tracing, he is the co-author of the OpenTracing standard which is a Linux Foundation project via the CNCF. Previously, Ben spent nine years at Google where he ate lots of snacks and designed several large (~1M-process) distributed systems. The most significant of these were Dapper, an always-on distributed tracing system; and Monarch, a high-availability timeseries collection, storage, and query system.