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Spoons

CTO and Cofounder

Spoons (or more formally Daniel Spoonhower) has published papers on the performance of parallel programs, garbage collection, and real-time programming. He has a PhD in programming languages but still hasn’t found one he loves.

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James Burns

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From network load balancers to FPGAs to ASICs to embedded security to cloud ops at scale, James has seen how systems work but, more interestingly, how they fail. He is passionate about sharing what he's learned to level up teams, make developers happier, and improve customer experiences.

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Isobel Redelmeier

OSS Engineer

Isobel Redelmeier is an Open Source Engineer at LightStep, where she focuses on OpenTracing and the overall goal of making the software world more observable. Ask her about observability, security, testing, or, frankly, most other software-related topics, and she'll probably have an opinion or three!

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Joe Blubaugh

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Joe Blubaugh works on data storage systems and data analysis tools for LightStep customers. He’s interested in real-time data systems, distributed system design, and data visualization.

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