Amir Jakoby is a seasoned technology executive with over 18 years of experience in software engineering, leadership, & product innovation. He currently serves as Co-Founder and CTO of Sawmills.ai.Previously, as VP of Engineering at New Relic, Amir led a global team of 85 engineers across 17 teams, driving AI innovation, including the launch of Grok, the first Observability GenAI-based assistant. Under his leadership, New Relic's was transformed into a profitable business of $60M in 2024.

Presentations

23x

How We Achieved a 40x Speedup with Custom Codegen for OTTL

In the observability space, many assume that OpenTelemetry Collector performance scales linearly—until it doesn't. This talk reveals the critical performance limits that practitioners encounter in real-world deployments, especially at scale, and highlights the blind spots that traditional telemetry metrics often miss.

We demonstrate how to diagnose and prevent high-throughput pipeline failures using latency histogram analysis, external HAProxy sidecars, and advanced profiling. These insights benefit both collector developers and platform engineers who manage telemetry pipelines across organizations.

See Presentation