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Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski
Company: Splunk
Nikita has been developing Observability tools for the last 10 years. At first as co-founder and lead engineer at Plumbr and now as a maintainer of the Java instrumentation library in OpenTelemetry project. He enjoys removing old code, challenging assumptions, and troubleshooting.