Nir Gazit
Software Architect at Traceloop
Israel
Summary
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RockstarNir Gazit is a generative AI and observability leader based in San Francisco with 8 years of engineering and executive experience, currently serving as Generative AI SIG Lead at OpenTelemetry and CEO/co‑founder of Traceloop (YC W23). He blends product and architecture experience from roles as Chief Architect at Fiverr and tech lead at Google with hands-on engineering roots from embedded and DSP work in the IDF. At Traceloop he built an OpenTelemetry-based platform for LLM observability and hallucination monitoring that helps teams debug and iterate without breaking production. An active open-source contributor, Nir has improved KafkaJS’s admin APIs and TypeScript typings and contributed backend work to OpenTelemetry integrations for LLMs, signaling a focus on reliable distributed systems and developer experience. Known for bridging low-level systems thinking with cloud-native AI infrastructure, he moves quickly from prototype to production while keeping developer ergonomics front of mind.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
opentelemetry10
typescript10
kafka10
typescript310
typescripts10
node-js10
typescript210
python10
typescript-types10
testing8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
traceloop/openllmetry
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Open-source observability for your LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:128 releases, 452 reviews, 843 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nir primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the project, focusing on setting up and configuring headers for trace exporting. They fixed bugs related to correctly parsing headers and ensured the correct appending of the /v1/traces endpoint. Furthermore, the user implemented the automatic creation of the dashboard.
artifical-intelligencedatasciencegenerative-aigood-first-issuegood-first-issues
tulios/kafkajs
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
A modern Apache Kafka client for node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 17 commits, 1 PR in 9 days
Contributions summary:Nir focused on implementing and refining the administrative features of the KafkaJS client. Their contributions include enhancing the `fetchConsumerGroupOffsets` functionality to support fetching offsets for multiple topics, optimizing tests, and adding TypeScript types to improve code maintainability. These changes directly impact the library's ability to manage and inspect consumer group states within a Kafka cluster. Further contributions include fixing typos and test flakiness.
apache-kafkakafka-consumernode-jsnpm-packagejavascript
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