Marcin Stozek

Engineering manager by day, Hacker News addict by night. Remote work enthusiast. Open Source advocate. His programming journey started with a copybook and a pencil in second grade when needed to calculate bytes for a picture shown by C64.

Since then he has been involved in many different projects – ranging from security in message queues to Hadoop, from monolith to microservices through Docker and Kubernetes. From software development, quality engineering through infrastructure, and DevOps evangelizing to management. He practices automation and believes that Linux is the best thing since sliced bread. Well, maybe after Vim.

Przemyslaw Maciolek

An engineer by heart, Przemek brings almost 2 decades of professional experience. He wore many hats during that time, which spanned software engineering, data science, architecture, ops, management, coffee making, and everything else required to make the team successful. He worked with OpenTracing (OpenTelemetry predecessor) in the past and since 2020 his focus shifted to OpenTelemetry, where he’s an active member of the community, focusing on OpenTelemetry Collector. While working in IT, he concurrently did a PhD in the field of ML in Natural Language Processing. He holds a belief that whenever working with datasets, nothing beats having good data quality to start with. OpenTelemetry greatly helps with that, by following the shift-left principle, giving them power to developer’s hands, and providing consistent conventions and rich data collection capabilities.