Introductions

[dyladan]

👋 Welcome!

We’re using Discussions as a place to connect with other members of our community. We hope that you:

• Ask questions you’re wondering about.
• Share ideas.
• Engage with other community members.
• Welcome others and are open-minded. Remember that this is a community we
  build together 💪.

To get started, comment below with an introduction of yourself and tell us about what you do with this community.

[dyladan]

Hello, I'm Dan!

I work at Dynatrace as an Open Source Architect helping to build the open source observability community. As part of that effort I am a Maintainer of OpenTelemetry JS, a member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee, and a member of the W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group.

[vmarchaud]

Hey !

My name is Valentin, i currently work at reelevant as a Product Manager. In the past i worked as CTO as @keymetrics where i built a monitoring solution for nodejs, hence my interest in OpenTelemetry (and Opencensus before) since the project started in 2019 when i joined the JS SIG as an approver. Even if my daily job doesn't directly contributing on OTel, i like to work on it on my free time :)

I will be happy to anwser any questions or guides new users, please reach out to me ! (email in my profile)

[naseemkullah]

Hey, I'm Naseem.

I work at Transit, I mostly work on the infra/ops side of things (GCP, k8s, CI/CD, monitoring) but also on some of our backend typescript services. I've taken a keen interest from early-on in OpenTelemetry as I was in search of some auto-instrumentation to get going with tracing. I eventually stumbled upon OpenCensus which offered some decent auto instrumentation, but was told by @mayurkale22 to keep an eye out for OpenTelemetry and well here we are :)

[jean]

Hi all, Jean here. I work at ScreenCloud, currently piloting using OTel in native apps and PWAs running on mobile devices, as well as in AWS microservices.

[dyladan]

Welcome to the community!

[mannyluvstacos]

Hi all!
I am Manny.

I work at Care.com and my work centers primarily around building out the platforms for GraphQL+NodeJS and slowly learning Go (as I go 🙄 ) to help build out that platform as well. 😁

I am getting up to speed on OpenTelemetry and the quickly changing landscape of Otel-JS (I was on 0.11.0 and now it's at 0.18.0 and onward to 1.0.0-rc! woo!)

In the past I worked at HomeAway (now Vrbo/Expedia) on the Node Platform team and I was exposed a little to OpenTracing, Jaeger, and Zipkin.

I would like to continue to learn about OpenTelemetry and hopefully gain enough experience and knowledge to contribute to the efforts around GraphQL and NodeJS. It'd be super awesome to help with issues and help update the documentation so that others who are trying to get up to speed are able to read the most current docs.

I look forward to learning and contributing! :)

[mannyluvstacos]

I am planning to put in two questions in the Q&A thread as I am currently stumped around

• accessing the traceId within an Apollo GraphQL Server (using the GraphQL Instrumentation)
• properly propagating the baggage to inner services

Thank you to @vmarchaud for the initial help in the Slack #otel-js channel!

[jonchurch]

Ahh the power of search. I created a new discussion before seeing this, I'll copy my comment here as I don't see an option to delete my original post. Maybe this discussion should get pinned?

Hello! I'm a member of the https://github.com/nodejs/package-maintenance group who is looking for a new project to get involved with. When asking about projects that might need some support, OpenTelemetry was suggested to me.

Wanted to introduce myself and see if there was a place to slot in to begin helping. So far this week I've been reading through the (quite thorough!) Contributing docs, reading the OT spec, watching some of the recorded meetings, and generally trying to get up to speed on the JS SIG and the work being done.

Previously I was contributing to Express, and was an early member of the Express Triage team that the Package Maintenance working group had kickstarted in that org. I took a year off amid the pandemic, and am now back looking for a project that is receptive to help.

If someone has the time and desire, I'm happy to chat either here on github or on a call. I'm currently looking at up-for-grabs issues and intend to PR something in this week.

[vmarchaud]

Don't hesitate to ping me on the cncf slack (same @ than github) if you want to do a call, thats always a pleasure to introduce ot to new people !

[jonchurch]

Thank you @vmarchaud for meeting with me today to talk about the project! @dyladan Id like to schedule something with you to chat as well, schedules permitting, will reach out on slack.