Manjunath GangappaManjunath Gangappa is a Director of Software Engineering at Mastercard R&D, with over 19 years of experience in enterprise software. He brings more than six years of hands-on Rust development along with extensive experience in the Java ecosystem, UI evelopment (JavaScript), database design, and large-scale system architecture. At Mastercard, he drives the development of cross-border payment platforms that incorporate blockchain technology, blending deep technical expertise with practical leadership. Having implemented observability in mission-critical financial systems, he offers firsthand insight into why telemetry spanning tracing, metrics, and logging is indispensable for ensuring reliability, security, and trust in modern FinTech. Read More Read Less