Cedric Ziel

Cedric Ziel is a Senior Product Manager at Grafana Labs. Cedric was previously with IBM from January 2022 to June 2022 as a Senior Product Manager for Observability. Cedric is also a product manager for Instana, an IBM company from March 2021 to January 2022. There, they took care of the Instana Agent and the creative ways customers deployed it at scale. Cedric has also been responsible for enhancing Distributed Tracing capabilities by expanding the AutoTrace capabilities to new technologies. Furthermore, they have facilitated a deep integration of OpenTelemetry into Instanas existing product areas and formed the strategy around it.

Cedric Ziel has a degree in Wirtschaftsinformatik from Universität Paderborn. Cedric also has certifications from Coursera in Cloud Engineering with Google Cloud Spezialisierung and Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure. Cedric is also certified by the TYPO3 Association as a TYPO3 CMS Certified Developer (TCCD) and by IBM as an IBM Certified Associate Application Developer - Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5. Additionally, they have an AWS Certified Developer - Associate certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Their manager is Torkel Ödegaard, Chief Growth Officer & Co-Founder. Cedric Ziel works with Dave Kranowitz - VP, Worldwide Sales, Katrina Odfina - Digital & Demand Gen Programs Manager, and Scott Fingerhut - VP Global Marketing.