
Ayooluwa Isaiah
Technical Content ManagerAyooluwa Isaiah is Technical Content Manager at Dash0, where he leads the company's technical content and developer education strategy across articles, videos, and other educational resources focused on OpenTelemetry, observability, and the emerging intersection of AI and software delivery.
Before joining Dash0, Ayo was Technical Content Manager at Better Stack, where he built and led a content program that grew to over 250,000 monthly organic visitors, producing comprehensive guides on logging, monitoring, and observability across multiple languages and frameworks.
His experience in content strategy, SEO, and developer education shapes his approach at Dash0, where he focuses on creating resources that serve practitioners first.
Beyond his work at Dash0, Ayo is a Google Developer Expert, a co-organizer of CNCF Abuja, and a co-author of OpenTelemetry for Dummies (Wiley) alongside Kasper Nissen.
He speaks actively across developer communities and is focused on growing the cloud-native ecosystem in Africa and beyond. He's also a software tinkerer at heart, with several successful open-source projects including F2, a cross-platform batch renaming tool.
Through his writing, speaking, and community work, he is committed to making OpenTelemetry and observability accessible to developers everywhere. He publishes his personal tech blog at http://freshman.tech.
Latest publications
Blog
Comparisons
Guides
- Monitoring Claude Code Usage and Costs with OpenTelemetryAug 15, 2026
- Compile-Time OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation in GoJul 21, 2026
- What Makes a Good OpenTelemetry Backend?Jul 10, 2026
- Dozzle: How to View Docker Container Logs in Real TimeJun 29, 2026
- Logging in Express.js with Pino (Complete Guide)Jun 11, 2026
Knowledge
- What Is OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation?Jul 15, 2026
- Traces vs Spans in OpenTelemetryJul 6, 2026
- Complete Guide to AWS SNS: Features, Pricing, Tutorial & Pro TipsMar 23, 2026
- How OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing Works (with Examples)Feb 23, 2026
- W3C Trace Context Explained: Traceparent & TracestateFeb 16, 2026