Danica Shei

Danica Shei is a senior product manager at Lightstep, which is a company specializing in observability and application performance management for cloud-native applications.

Here are some key points about Danica Shei:

Role and Responsibilities

• She serves as a Group Product Manager and later as a Director of Product Management at Lightstep, focusing on the development and management of the Lightstep platform.123

Contributions

• Danica Shei has been instrumental in the announcement and implementation of Lightstep's Unified Query Language (UQL), which enables observability-as-code, allowing businesses to manage the end-to-end pipeline of instrumentation, definition, and output management. This enhances consistency, maintainability, and reproducibility across cloud-native architectures.1

Background

• She is based in San Francisco and has a strong educational background, having graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.34

Current Affiliation

• Danica Shei is associated with ServiceNow, as Lightstep was acquired by ServiceNow. She continues to work on cloud observability solutions within this framework.23

Her work at Lightstep involves driving innovation in observability, ensuring that developers and SREs can effectively monitor and respond to changes in complex cloud-native applications.