Yuri Shkuro is a software engineer at Uber Technologies, working on distributed tracing, observability, reliability, and performance problems; author of the book ["Mastering Distributed Tracing"](https://www.shkuro.com/books/2019-mastering-distributed-tracing/); creator of Jaeger, Uber's open source distributed tracing platform incubating at CNCF; co-founder of the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry CNCF projects; invited expert in W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group.