Yuri Shkuro
Principal Engineer at Airbnb
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolRobin Ketelbuters is a Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, observability tooling, and developer-focused platform services from Utrecht. He is a notable open-source contributor and creator of Jaeger, co-founder of OpenTelemetry, and author of "Mastering Distributed Tracing," bringing deep practical knowledge of distributed tracing into production systems. Robin has shipped backend, DevOps, and UI improvements across high-impact projects like Jaeger and the OpenTelemetry Collector, often focusing on reliable startup/shutdown lifecycle, testing, and interoperability. His career spans hands-on roles at Giant Swarm, EDSN, Axual and Gluo, where he combined engineering and operational ownership to modernize observability and deployment pipelines. Comfortable across languages and layers, he moves between backend systems, front-end polish, and documentation to make complex systems understandable and resilient. A less obvious strength is his repeated work improving test infrastructure and CI, which underpins the long-term reliability of the projects he touches.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of MarylandMaster Computer Engineering, Master Computer Engineering at Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (54)
hugo10
javascript10
tracer10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
technical-writing10
distributed-tracing10
testing10
configuration-management10
typescript10
opentracing10
ui-design10
java10
cicd10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
jaegertracing/jaeger-client-go
May 2016 - Jan 2022
🛑 This library is DEPRECATED!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 52 reviews, 160 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yuri primarily contributed to the `jaeger-client-go` repository by adding and modifying Thrift definitions and related code for crossdock functionality, as evidenced by the addition of make commands and changes to types.go, tracedservice.go, and the related client and server test files. These modifications appear to be focused on enhancing testing capabilities, by modifying the transport mechanism and allowing service name configuration. The user's work focused on refining the interaction between components and improving the test framework.
newrelicjaegertracingmicroservicesdistributed-tracingmonitoring
jaegertracing/jaeger
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:35 releases, 7716 reviews, 415 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Yuri's primary contributions centered around adding and maintaining code for the backend infrastructure, covering aspects of both backend development and DevOps. Key changes included adding Travis builds, coverage scripts, and license and contributing documentation to the project. The user made various code changes to the agent service, model, and command, which is indicative of backend logic. The user's code changes also included script modifications indicating DevOps knowledge.
distributed-tracingjaegercncftracingobservability
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