# About Darpan Kakadia

Darpan Kakadia is a Member of Technical Staff at [Vercel](https://vercel.com) in Munich, Germany.

He builds Vercel's observability products, including Tracing, Logs, and Drains.

The question behind most of it is simple: what happened to this request? He works on making the answer visible, useful, and close to where people already debug.

## Before Vercel

He was a Staff Engineer at Scalable Capital, an Open Source Maintainer at Gatsby, a UI Engineer at Cleartrip, and a Software Engineer at Glider.

## Tools and interests

He works mostly with TypeScript and React. He cares about OpenTelemetry, front-end performance, developer experience, and open source. Outside work, he likes photography and coffee.

## Links

- Homepage: [https://kakadiadarpan.com](https://kakadiadarpan.com)
- GitHub: [github.com/kakadiadarpan](https://github.com/kakadiadarpan)
- X: [@kakadiadarpan](https://x.com/kakadiadarpan)
- Contact: [https://kakadiadarpan.com/contact](https://kakadiadarpan.com/contact)