#279 Daniel "Spoons" Spoonhower - Co-Founder at LightStep

Today we are talking to Daniel "Spoons" Spoonhower the Co-Founder at LightStep.  And we discuss taking an outcome driven approach to time management, how to set the foundation for building successful teams, and what managing change looks like when raising the next generation of leaders.

All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

About Daniel:

Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower is a cofounder at LightStep, a company that makes complex microservice applications more transparent and reliable. An expert in distributed tracing, he is a core contributor to the OpenTracing project, a CNCF project. Previously, Spoons spent almost six years as a staff software engineer on Google’s Infrastructure and Cloud Platform teams, where he ate lots of snacks and worked on various products. Spoons holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in computer science.

About LightStep:

At LightStep, our mission is to deliver confidence at scale for those who develop, operate, and rely upon today’s powerful software applications. LightStep analyzes 100% of unsampled transaction data from highly-distributed, large-scale production software to produce complete end-to-end traces and robust metrics that explain performance behaviors and accelerate root cause analysis. LightStep is backed by Sequoia, Redpoint, and Altimeter. We are headquartered in San Francisco, CA.