Dinmukhamed Mailibay is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 5 years of experience building scalable backend systems, data pipelines, and AI-driven products. As Co-Founder and CTO at Laminar (YC S24), he designed OpenTelemetry-backed storage and client instrumentation, processing thousands of spans and images daily while securing YC pre-seed investment. His background spans high-throughput systems at Amazon and IMDb—optimising search indexing for 100M+ documents, cutting costs via architecture changes, and delivering message processing at hundreds of TPS. He contributes to open-source observability for LLMs (traceloop/openllmetry), adding instrumentation and test coverage for Anthropic tool calls and prompt metrics. Comfortable across cloud infrastructure, Knative container hosting, and ML/MLops, he blends product-focused engineering with practical research experience from biotech to accessibility. Based in London and trained at KAIST, he’s now focused on enabling firms and developers to use AI effectively in production.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Open-source observability for your LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & MLOps Engineer
Contributions:9 reviews, 18 PRs, 35 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Dinmukhamed contributed to the instrumentation and observability aspects of the `openllmetry` project, focusing on integrating and testing with Anthropic's LLM functionalities. Their work included adding instrumentation for Anthropic tool calling and prompt caching, and incorporating system messages within prompts. The user also added and improved test coverage, incorporating metrics verification across several tests, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the correct collection of LLM-related metrics. Additionally, there are contributions related to setting up and adding attributes within the context of the OpenTelemetry ecosystem.
Laminar - open-source all-in-one platform for engineering AI products. Crate data flywheel for you AI app. Traces, Evals, Datasets, Labels. YC S24.
Contributions:31 releases, 126 reviews, 502 PRs in 7 months
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