Yuri Shkuro is a software engineer at Uber Technologies, working on distributed tracing, observability, reliability, and performance. He is the technical lead for Uber's tracing team. Before Uber, Yuri spent 15 years on Wall Street, building trading and risk management systems for derivatives at top investment banks, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley. Yuri's open source credentials include being a co-founder of the OpenTracing project, and the creator and the tech lead of Jaeger, a distributed tracing platform developed at Uber. Both projects are incubating at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Yuri serves as an invited expert on the W3C Distributed Tracing working group. Dr. Yuri Shkuro holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, and a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from MEPhI (Moscow Engineering & Physics Institute), one of Russia's top three universities. He is the author of many academic papers in the area of machine learning and neural networks; his papers have been cited in over 130 other publications. Outside of his academic and professional career, Yuri helped edit and produce several animated shorts directed by Lev Polyakov, including Only Love (2008), which screened at over 30 film festivals and won several awards, Piper the Goat and the Peace Pipe (2005), a winner at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, and others.
