Suman Karumuri

Suman Karumuri is a Principal Engineer and tech lead at Airbnb, specializing in observability and infrastructure.12 With over 17 years of experience in the tech industry, he works at the intersection of big data and observability.7 Suman is an expert in distributed tracing and leads observability efforts at Airbnb.6

Throughout his career, Suman has:

• Developed foundational tools like Zipkin, Astra (Previously KalDB), and OpenTSDB1
• Worked on all three pillars of observability: distributed tracing, log search, and metrics1
• Focused on building reliable, secure, and efficient event ingestion pipelines2
• Held engineering roles at prominent companies such as Slack, Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook before joining Airbnb8

At Airbnb, Suman's responsibilities include:

• Managing broader infrastructure projects with a strong focus on observability1
• Overseeing in-house observability infrastructure for logs, metrics, and traces1
• Leading technical aspects and reviewing design documents1
• Working on cloud-native database projects like KalDB (now Astra)24

Suman is passionate about continuous learning and growth in his field.5 His LinkedIn username is "mansu".3