Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Chief Architect Primary Organization LightStep
Location San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower is the Co-Founder and Chief Architect at LightStep, a company that makes complex microservice applications more transparent and reliable. An expert in distributed tracing, he is a core contributor to the OpenTracing project, a CNCF project. Previously, Spoons spent almost six years as a staff software engineer on Google’s
Infrastructure and Cloud Platform teams, where he ate lots of snacks and worked on various products. Spoons holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in computer science.
