Jacob Aronoff

Jacob Aronoff is a skilled software engineer with extensive experience in telemetry and Kubernetes. Currently serving as a Maintainer for the opentelemetry-operator project at OpenTelemetry and as a Staff Software Engineer at Lightstep, Jacob focuses on telemetry pipeline leadership and Kubernetes telemetry. Jacob's background includes significant roles at Drift, where core chat infrastructure was migrated to Kubernetes, and contributions as Hackathon Director for hackNY.org, overseeing hackathon operations. Jacob's early career included various positions at companies such as Datadog and GIPHY, as well as education at Northeastern University, culminating in a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.