Yuri Shkuro is a software engineer at Uber Technologies, working on distributed
tracing, observability, reliability, and performance. He is the technical lead for Uber's
tracing team. Before Uber, Yuri spent 15 years on Wall Street, building trading and
risk management systems for derivatives at top investment banks, Goldman Sachs,
JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley.
Yuri's open source credentials include being a co-founder of the OpenTracing project,
and the creator and the tech lead of Jaeger, a distributed tracing platform developed
at Uber. Both projects are incubating at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Yuri serves as an invited expert on the W3C Distributed Tracing working group.