Suman Karumuri is a Principal Software Engineer and the tech lead for Observability at Airbnb. As an expert in distributed tracing, Suman has been a tech lead of Zipkin and a co-author of the OpenTracing standard, a Linux Foundation project under the CNCF. With extensive experience, Suman has spent years building and operating petabyte-scale log search, distributed tracing, and metrics systems at notable companies like Slack, Pinterest, Twitter, and Amazon. In his leisure time, Suman enjoys engaging in board games, exploring the outdoors through hiking, and spending quality time with his children.