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Technology Leader & Engineer
Jay Prajapat
Technology Leader & Engineer
Software engineer with 15+ years of experience building web applications, SaaS products, and engineering teams. Currently focused on AI applications, AWS architecture, and scalable SaaS systems. Building Model Meter to solve the AI cost visibility problem he kept running into firsthand.
Proxy-based tools like Helicone sit in the critical path of your AI calls. Here's what that costs you, and why OpenTelemetry instrumentation is a better approach for cost tracking.
A step-by-step guide to attributing LLM spend to specific projects, features, and teams using Model Meter's TypeScript SDK and OpenTelemetry.
A worked example of a month of multi-provider LLM spend — the breakdowns that matter, the anomalies worth catching, and how project-level attribution changes the conversation.
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