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title: "Announcing 2024 OpenTelemetry Community Awards Winners"
source: OpenTelemetry Documentation
source_url: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry.io
licence: CC-BY-4.0
domain: engineering
subdomain: opentelemetry-docs
date_added: 2026-04-25
---

We are excited to announce the winners of the first-ever **OpenTelemetry
Community Awards**! These awards recognize individuals who have made a notable
impact to OpenTelemetry project over the past year, whether it's through code,
documentation, project management, outreach, adoption, or simply helping others
answer technical questions on our [CNCF Slack](https://slack.cncf.io/). We
received many nominations from the community, and we are delighted to share the
winners with you.

Let's congratulate our 2024 OpenTelemetry Community Awards winners:

- [@serkan-ozal](https://github.com/serkan-ozal) (Serkan Özal)
- [@anunarapureddy](https://github.com/anunarapureddy) (Anusha Narapureddy)
- [@avillela](https://github.com/avillela) (Adriana Villela)
- [@codeboten](https://github.com/codeboten) (Alex Boten)
- [@emdneto](https://github.com/emdneto) (Emídio Neto)

We have collected any attached comments (some of them summarized) from all
received nominations. These demonstrate the great appreciation from the
community towards all nominated individuals. You can find those comments in the
following
[presentation slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YaJvAWnNcUJd1RNsqvEYCcqvJUoj0TDd).

We would like to thank everyone who participated in the nomination process, and
we congratulate the winners for their outstanding contributions to the
OpenTelemetry project.
