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"; creator of Jaeger, Uber's open source distributed tracing system (a CNCF project); co-founder of the OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry projects (also in CNCF); invited expert in W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group.