Annanay Agarwal, a developer at Grafana Labs based in Bangalore, contributes to the Cortex project and manages internal tracing infrastructure. His journey in open source began with a Google Summer of Code project improving TensorFlow kernel performance, leading to contributions in the observability space with JaegerTracing and OpenTelemetry, and now focusing on Cortex. Annanay's interests extend beyond work, as he enjoys reading, music, Netflix, and sports like football and badminton. During the Coronavirus lockdown, he picked up cooking and aspires to contribute to the Loki project due to his admiration for it. His GitHub handle is annanay25 and his Twitter handle is @mrannanay. Annanay prefers coding in silence, occasionally accompanied by pop music, and if he could have a superpower, it would be the ability to fly, reflecting his fascination with airplanes.