#36 – OpenTelemetry in Practice: How to Contribute, Grow, and Build Community with Marylia Gutierrez

Marylia Gutierrez, principal software engineer at Grafana Labs and an OpenTelemetry maintainer, joins Code RED guest host Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0’s principal developer relations engineer, for a deep dive into how OpenTelemetry really works. They unpack how contributors get started, SIGs, why non-code contributions like documentation, localization, and governance matter just as much as PRs, and what it takes to grow from first-time contributor to maintainer. Links mentioned in the episode: How to Contribute to OpenTelemetry, by Marylia Gutierrez: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/co... OpenTelemetry community resources: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/contrib...