I am a Staff Software Engineer on the AI/ML team at Grafana Labs. I am passionate about building data-driven systems that have a positive impact on society.
Previously I:
- co-created Grafana Tempo: a high performance, open source, distributed tracing backend.
- was a Graduate student in Computer Science at Cornell University. Read about my Fall 2022 semester here.
- have given talks at
- FOSDEM 2025: Auto-instrumentation for GPU performance using eBPF.
- KubeCON 2021: Jaeger Deep Dive - Yuri Shkuro, Facebook, Pavol Loffay, Red Hat & Annanay Agarwal, Grafana Labs.
- GrafanaCON 2020 and 2022: Beyond tracing with Grafana Tempo: What do we do with all this data?
- SCaLE 21x: So you want to build an Incident Response stack using OpenTelemetry?
- Bangalore Observability Meetup: Tempo, Path to 1M spans/sec.
- was a Site Reliability Engineer at @media.net handling the infrastructure for a Spam Detection Engine.
- spent 4 amazing undergraduate years studying Computer Science at IIT Hyderabad.