Steven Swartz
Founder at Make Music New York
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Swartz is the founder of Dotdotdotmusic and a seasoned publicity and strategy specialist who has steered promotion and career development for leading contemporary classical artists and ensembles for over a decade. Trained as a composer with a PhD under Morton Feldman, he blends deep musical scholarship with hands-on experience in journalism, radio, recording, and digital promotion to create campaigns that bridge traditional and indie-classical worlds. Before founding his firm he spent sixteen years as publicity director at Boosey & Hawkes, building extensive media relationships and pioneering database-driven and digital PR tools. He advises major festivals and organizations (including Make Music New York) and mentors emerging artists in visual presentation and fundraising. Unusually for a music publicist, he also contributes to open-source telemetry tooling, applying backend engineering work to improve observability in distributed systems. Based in New York, he combines curator-level taste with practical tech and media savvy to advance boundary-pushing music projects.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. with High Honors, Music and Philosophy, B.A. with High Honors, Music and Philosophy at Swarthmore CollegePh.D., Music Composition, Ph.D., Music Composition at University at Buffalo
French
Github Skills (6)
opentelemetry10
go10
backend9
back-end-development9
rabbitmq9
message-queue5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 24 PRs, 65 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository by modifying and enhancing the OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) code within the OpenTelemetry Collector. The changes involved exposing TelemetrySettings to OTTL path parsers across multiple contexts, including scope, resource, and span. This enables components to leverage the logger for context-specific operations. The user also added a skeleton for a new rabbitmq exporter component.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
UPOD-2016/upod_docs
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 34 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
java
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