Austin Parker

Bio

Austin Parker is Director of Open Source at Honeycomb.io, a co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project, and a member of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee. With over two decades in the IT and software industry, Austin has built and operated cloud-native platforms for a variety of functions, including banking, healthcare, and telecommunications. In addition, Austin is a frequent writer, international speaker, and community builder around open source and observability topics. He’s an author of Distributed Tracing in Practice (O’Reilly, 2022), a co-chair and organizer of Observability Day NA and EMEA, and the founder of the world’s first (and only) virtual DevOps event in Animal Crossing, Deserted Island DevOps. You can find more of his writing at https://aparker.io.