Ted Young
Developer Programs Director at Grafana Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTed Young is a developer programs director and open-source leader with 11 years of experience building and stewarding distributed systems and observability projects. As a co-founder of OpenTelemetry and current tracing lead at Grafana Labs, he blends hands-on engineering, product leadership, and community-building to drive adoption of telemetry standards. His background spans R&D in cloud runtimes and containerization at Pivotal to leading open-source initiatives at LightStep, reflecting deep expertise in dynamic scheduling, observability, and large-scale system design. Ted’s career began in animation and creative technology, a thread that surfaces in his pragmatic, design-conscious approach to developer tooling and developer experience. Based in San Francisco, he publishes code publicly (github.com/tedsuo) and is known for turning complex distributed challenges into practical, widely-adopted solutions.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Animation, Animation at Academy of Art UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Tufts University
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Github Skills (200)
go-api10
sap-cap10
distributed-tracing10
specification10
jaeger10
nginx-module10
opentelemetry10
tempo10
monitoring10
cloud-foundry10
chain10
process-model10
diego10
api10
sdk10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
tedsuo/otel-node-basics
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 month
tedsuo/community
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
OpenTelemetry community content
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
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