Kayla Reopelle
Lead Software Engineer at New Relic
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarKayla Reopelle is a Lead Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with four years of professional experience delivering back-end solutions. At New Relic she focuses on maintaining and modernizing the Ruby agent, driving significant refactors such as removing deprecated Merb support and streamlining Rails-specific code paths to improve long-term maintainability. She brings a pragmatic, test-aware approach to legacy codebases—balancing deprecation strategies, logging fixes, and configuration updates to reduce technical debt. Colleagues rely on her for clear, well-documented changes that make complex agent behavior easier to understand and evolve.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
refactoring10
refactor10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails9
rails9
testing8
configuration-management7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 1740 reviews, 799 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kayla primarily focused on refactoring and commenting on the New Relic Ruby agent codebase, particularly concerning the removal of deprecated features, and updating configurations. Key contributions involved removing support for the Merb framework and related references, streamlining code related to Rails versions, and addressing issues in logging and testing by utilizing a combination of code modifications and deprecation strategies. The contributions focused primarily on refactoring the existing Ruby code base.
newrelicrubyagentapm-agent
kaylareopelle/opentelemetry-ruby-contrib
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026
Contrib Packages for the OpenTelemetry Ruby API and SDK implementation.
Contributions:14 reviews, 7 PRs, 220 pushes in 3 years
opentelemetryruby
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