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Jonah Kowall a computer scientist and open-source contributor committing code to FreeBSD and built the first wireless cracking algorithms. Today Jonah focuses on observability contributing and maintaining projects such as OpenSearch, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry. Jonah received his CISSP and CISA along with several certifications and awards. Throughout 15 years as a practitioner and manager across startups and large enterprises specialized in operations, security, and performance. In 2011 Jonah changed careers, moving to Gartner to focus on availability and performance monitoring and IT operations management (ITOM). Speaking and writing research globally for IT leaders and CIOs. In 2015 Jonah joined AppDynamics driving corporate development, product strategy, and vision. Cisco acquired AppDynamics in 2017 for $3.8b. Jonah then joined Kentik as CTO and executed the product vision and strategy. In 2020 Jonah joined Logz.io as CTO to drive strategy and ecosystem for their open-source based SaaS observability platform.