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Chris Featherstone

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Senior Manager, Software Development at Adobe
📍 Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, United States

Chris Featherstone is a Senior Manager of Software Development at Adobe, where he leads the Observability team. His expertise lies in metrics, tracing, and deploying OpenTelemetry at scale, utilizing tools like Grafana, Jaeger, and Prometheus. He earned an Associate of Science from Salt Lake Community College.

Outside of his professional role, Chris is a known public speaker within the tech community. He frequently shares his expertise on observability and open-source solutions at major industry conferences, including Open Source Summit North America and ObservabilityCON.

He is an avid dirt bike rider in his spare time and has recently been riding electric dirt bikes.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Senior Manager, Software Development
Job Level
Middle
Location
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, United States
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Large-Scale Observability
He leads Adobe's Observability team, managing systems that process over 330 million unique metrics series and 3. 6 terabytes of span data daily.
Open Source Tools
Advocates for and implements open standards, discussing his team's use of OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Mimir, and Tempo in public talks.
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Career

Work history

7-2021
Senior Manager, Software Development
Adobe
10-2018 - 7-2021
Manager, Software Development
Adobe
5-2017 - 10-2018
System Engineer
Adobe
4-2011 - 5-2017
Senior System Administrator
CDK Global
5-2007 - 4-2011
Client Technical Analyst
CDK Global
In the press

Media appearances

Reduce mean time to hello world: Inside Adobe's Observability Stack. Featured in Grafana Blog
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Education
2008 - 2013
Associate of Science (A.S.)
Salt Lake Community College
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