Jason Keller
Senior Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Keller is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and supporting Java-based observability tooling, currently contributing to the widely used New Relic Java agent. He progressed from technical support into engineering at New Relic, combining deep troubleshooting skills with backend development to improve instrumentation, supportability metrics, and MBean tracking. Jason is passionate about web and mobile programming and brings a knack for pragmatic problem-solving evidenced by targeted fixes and enhancements in the open-source newrelic-java-agent repository. Based in Portland, he pairs formal CS training from the University of Oregon with a longtime curiosity-driven learning habit and a background in recording arts, giving him a practical, user-focused perspective on building tools that make life easier.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer & Information Science, GPA: 3.69, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer & Information Science, GPA: 3.69 at University of OregonAssociate of Science (A.S.), Recording Arts Technology/Technician, Associate of Science (A.S.), Recording Arts Technology/Technician at Full Sail UniversityAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Oregon Transfer, GPA: 3.97, Associate of Arts (A.A.), Oregon Transfer, GPA: 3.97 at Lane Community College
Github Skills (8)
javas10
instrumentation10
metric10
java10
performance-optimization9
logging9
debugging9
thread8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-java-agent
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The New Relic Java agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 363 reviews, 497 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason focused on the New Relic Java agent, making several targeted changes to enhance supportability and functionality. Their work involved fixing supportability metrics for span events, increasing timeouts for database connection pool, and addressing code style issues. They also added metrics to track MBean supportability, resolved issues with instrumentation modules, and corrected code spellings.
java-agentnewrelictelemetry-java
newrelic/newrelic-gradle-compatibility-doc-plugin
Jul 2020 - Oct 2024
Gradle plugin for generating compatibility documents (lists of supported software versions) from instrumentation modules.
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 4 years 4 months
gradle-pluginjavanewrelicgradlejava-agent
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