Erika Arnold
Director, Software Engineering at New Relic
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolErika Arnold is a pragmatic, data-driven engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling observability platforms at New Relic, now serving as Director for the NRDB platform organization. She blends hands-on engineering and cloud architecture expertise—having driven OpenTelemetry integration, launched public Trace APIs and telemetry SDKs, and expanded New Relic’s cellular architecture into Azure. Known for tackling fuzzy, cross-team problems, she has repeatedly moved from agent-level work to shaping platform-wide tracing and sampling solutions. With a PhD in Biological Sciences and an early background in web development, she brings a researcher's rigor and generalist curiosity to complex distributed systems and customer-focused product decisions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biological Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biological Sciences at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Biology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Biology at Lewis & Clark College
Github Skills (15)
newrelic10
asciidoc10
backlog10
documentation9
opentracing8
telemetry8
terraform-module7
aws6
terraform5
distributed-tracing5
kubernetes4
helm4
trace4
propagation1
specification1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
erabug/wikigraph
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Find and explore the shortest path between any two pages on Wikipedia
Contributions:135 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
erabug/simpsons-quotes
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 2 months
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