Laurent Quérel
Sr Director And Distinguished Engineer at F5
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolLaurent Quérel is a senior technology leader and distinguished engineer with over 20 years of experience architecting high-performance, cloud-native analytics and telemetry systems. Currently Sr Director and Distinguished Engineer at F5 in Sunnyvale, he drove the design and open-source donation of an Apache Arrow–based OpenTelemetry protocol to dramatically reduce telemetry bandwidth and improve compression. He pairs hands-on systems engineering in Rust, Go and Java with strategic platform leadership—shaping cloud services, OLAP/streaming architectures, governance and privacy frameworks. Former VP Engineering and co-founder roles show deep startup experience modernizing legacy stacks into multi-tenant microservices and building real-time stream processors and graph databases. An active open-source maintainer and contributor (OTel Arrow/Arrow Collector/Weaver, BigQuery GCP client, Apache Arrow), he combines academic AI roots with practical innovations like in-memory graph engines and off-heap JVM optimizations.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Artificial Intelligence, Engineer's Degree Artificial Intelligence at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en InformatiqueMaster's Degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's Degree Artificial Intelligence at Pierre and Marie Curie University
French, English
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Github Skills (111)
opentelemetry-collector10
gcp10
apache-arrow10
code-generation10
jaeger10
parquet10
opentelemetry10
elasticsearch10
codegen10
api10
rest10
rust10
search-engine10
observability10
bigquery10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/weaver
Feb 2024 - May 2026
OTel Weaver lets you easily develop, validate, document, and deploy semantic conventions
Contributions:2 releases, 606 reviews, 343 PRs in 2 years 3 months
otelcodegenobservabilityopentelemetrypolicy
lquerel/opentelemetry.io
Sep 2023 - Jun 2026
The OpenTelemetry website and documentation
Contributions:107 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
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