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# Juraci Paixão Kröhling
OpenTelemetry maintainer and engineer building practical distributed tracing tools.

## About

Juraci Paixão Kröhling builds and maintains telemetry tools as a software engineer at OllyGarden. He helps guide the OpenTelemetry project as a maintainer and governing board member, and advocates for cloud-native infrastructure as a CNCF Ambassador.

His work focuses on distributed tracing and creating observability systems that genuinely help developers debug production issues. He regularly breaks down how to avoid common instrumentation mistakes—from overused spans to leaked personal data—at events like KubeCon and FOSDEM.

Previously, he maintained the OpenTracing and Jaeger projects.



## Past Sessions

### World Congress 2026 Europe · July 8, 2026
Berlin, Germany
- [The OpenTelemetry mistakes I keep seeing (and how to stop making them)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100158-the-opentelemetry-mistakes-i-keep-seeing-and-how-to-stop-making-them) · 30 min · 🎥 Watch recording



## Videos

- [The OpenTelemetry mistakes I keep seeing (and how to stop making them)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100158-the-opentelemetry-mistakes-i-keep-seeing-and-how-to-stop-making-them) · Juraci Paixão Kröhling


## Links

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpkroehling/)