OpenTelemetry Community Members
May 28, 2026 · View on GitHub
Governance Committee
This is the current Governance Committee, per the Governance Committee Charter, in alphabetical order:
- Alolita Sharma, Apple, until October 2026
- Austin Parker, Honeycomb, until October 2027
- Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden, until October 2027
- Marylia Gutierrez, Grafana Labs, until October 2027
- Morgan McLean, Splunk, until October 2026
- Pablo Baeyens, Datadog, until October 2026
- Severin Neumann, Causely, until October 2027
- Ted Young, Grafana Labs, until October 2027
- Trask Stalnaker, Microsoft, until October 2026
Technical Committee
This is the current Technical Committee, per the Technical Committee Charter, in alphabetical order:
- Armin Ruech, Dynatrace
- Bogdan Drutu, Snowflake
- Carlos Alberto Cortez, Lightstep
- David Ashpole, Google
- Jack Berg, Grafana Labs
- Joshua MacDonald, Microsoft
- Liudmila Molkova, Google
- Reiley Yang, Microsoft
- Tigran Najaryan, Splunk
Community Management
These are community maintainers, responsible for cross-functional project communications, events, and other functions as needed.
- Adriana Villela, Dynatrace
- Reese Lee, New Relic
- (Associate) Julia Furst Morgado, Dash0
Specifications and Proto
Members of the Technical Committee are the maintainers of Project specs and Proto definitions.
Specification sponsors are trusted collaborators of the Technical Committee on Project specs and related repositories:
- Alex Boten, Honeycomb
- Christian Neumüller, Dynatrace
- Cijo Thomas, Microsoft
- Daniel Dyla, Dynatrace
- Josh Suereth, Google
- Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OllyGarden
- Leighton Chen, Microsoft
- Marc Alff, Oracle
- Robert Pająk, Splunk
- Severin Neumann, Independent
- Ted Young, Grafana Labs
- Tristan Sloughter, MyDecisiveAI
- Tyler Yahn, Splunk
Emeritus sponsors (formerly approvers):
Prometheus Interoperability
Members of the Prometheus<->OpenTelemetry Interoperability Working Group. Responsible for evolving the interoperability between Prometheus and OpenTelemetry, including specification of data model transformations and their implementations in several SDKs, Collector and other parts where the two communities intersect.
- Arthur Silva Sens, Grafana Labs
- David Ashpole, Google
Emeritus:
- Alolita Sharma, Apple
- Antony Mirabella, AWS
- Jaana Dogan, Google
- Josh Suereth, Google
- Juraj Michálek, Grafana Labs
Semantic Conventions
Repo: open-telemetry/semantic-conventions
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions can be found in the open-telemetry/semantic-convention README file.
Java
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry Java API and SDK can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java README file.
Java Instrumentation
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation README file.
.NET
API and SDK
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet.
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") can be found in the README.md file in the repo.
.NET Auto-Instrumentation
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-instrumentation.
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") can be found in the README.md file in the repo.
Golang
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry Go API and SDK can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go CONTRIBUTING file.
Golang Auto-Instrumentation
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-instrumentation
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry Go auto-instrumentation can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-instrumentation CONTRIBUTING file.
Golang Compile Time Instrumentation
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-compile-instrumentation
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry Go compile time instrumentation can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-compile-instrumentation README file.
JavaScript
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry JavaScript API and SDK can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js README file.
Python
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry Python API and SDK can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python README file.
Agent and Collector
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry Agent and Collector can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector README file.
Docs and website
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry Docs and Website can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io README file.
Erlang
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-erlang
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for OpenTelemetry Erlang can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-erlang README file.
C++
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for OpenTelemetry C++ can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp README file.
Ruby
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for OpenTelemetry Ruby can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ruby README file.
Rust
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for OpenTelemetry Rust can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust README file.
PHP
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry PHP API and SDK can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php CONTRIBUTING file.
Swift
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-swift
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for the OpenTelemetry Swift API & SDK can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-swift CONTRIBUTING file.
Network collector
Repos: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-network and open-telemetry/opentelemetry-network-build-tools
The list of active members (both "approvers" and "maintainers") for OpenTelemetry Network can be found in the open-telemetry/opentelemetry-network README file.
Community Demo
Repo: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo
Governance Committee Emeritus
- Ben Sigelman, until October 2023
- Bogdan Drutu, until October 2023
- Constance Caramanolis, until October 2021
- Daniel Dyla, until October 2024
- Daniel Gomez Blanco, until October 2025
- Liz Fong-Jones, until October 2022
- Sarah Novotny, until October 2021
- Sergey Kanzhelev, until October 2021
- Yuri Shkuro, until October 2023