Yuri Shkuro

Yuri Shkuro leads infrastructure engineering at Airbnb, where his work centers on distributed systems and observability. He created Jaeger, an open-source distributed tracing system, and co-founded OpenTelemetry; he also authored *Mastering Distributed Tracing* and has contributed to the W3C Distributed Tracing Working Group.

Career

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Based in: New York City
Elsewhere

Airbnb

Jan 2026 — Present

Principal Engineer

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

OpenTelemetry - Co-founder, member of Technical Committees, ex-Governance Committee
Mar 2019 — Present
OpenTracing - Co-founder, Maintainer
Oct 2016 — Dec 2021