Primary Job Title Co-Founder & General Manager Primary Organization LightStep
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Ben Sigelman is the Co-Founder and General Manager at LightStep, a company that makes complex microservice applications more transparent and reliable. An expert in distributed tracing, he is the co-author of the OpenTracing standard which is a Linux Foundation project via the CNCF. Previously, Ben spent nine years at Google where he ate lots of
snacks and designed several large (~1M-process) distributed systems. The most significant of these were Dapper, an always-on distributed tracing system; and Monarch, a high-availability timeseries collection, storage, and query system.
