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Meet Juraci Paixão Kröhling, OpenTelemetry maintainer and Telemetry Drops instructor. Explore his project contributions, technical writing, and courses.

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Your OpenTelemetry instructor

# Juraci Paixão Kröhling

OpenTelemetry maintainer and founder of Telemetry Drops, where he teaches observability engineering through hands-on courses.

Juraci teaches the decisions behind instrumentation and telemetry pipelines: how the data model works, how components fit together, and how to reason about observability in production.

## Experience you can verify

Juraci contributes to OpenTelemetry and serves on its Governance Committee. His work includes the Collector Builder and OpenTelemetry Operator. He is based in Germany and is a co-founder of OllyGarden.

*   [OpenTelemetry Governance Committee roster](https://github.com/open-telemetry/community/blob/main/community-members.md)
*   [OpenTelemetry Collector Builder project](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/cmd/builder)
*   [OpenTelemetry Operator project](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator)
*   [Juraci's GitHub contributions](https://github.com/jpkrohling)
*   [Juraci on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpkroehling)

## Explore his approach before choosing a course

Read a practical guide, examine a working configuration, or watch the introductory lesson on our homepage. These public resources let you judge the depth and teaching approach for yourself.

*   [Weaver: from telemetry schemas to generated code](https://telemetrydrops.com/blog/weaver-from-zero-to-hero/)
*   [Route logs by severity with the Collector](https://telemetrydrops.com/blog/severity-based-log-routing/)
*   [Diagnose telemetry quality and cost problems](https://telemetrydrops.com/blog/bad-telemetry-not-volume-problem/)

## Learn with Telemetry Drops

Choose self-paced study with OTel Track or explore the eight-week OTel Specialization with weekly mentoring and project feedback. Compare the curriculum, price and current availability before deciding.

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Telemetry Drops is operated by Dose de Telemetria GmbH. Course completion certificates are separate from CNCF's OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA) credential.