David Affinito
Senior Software Engineer at New Relic
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorDavid Affinito is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon, with over a decade of experience blending technical support expertise and hands-on software development at New Relic. He transitioned from a long career as a Technical Support Engineer into engineering roles, bringing deep customer-facing insight to building reliable tooling and services. Proficient in Go, Node, and React, he also leverages .NET, Python, PHP, Ruby, and Java to solve diverse problems across stacks. David excels at turning complex incidents into durable software fixes and automations that reduce future toil. His background supporting enterprise backup systems gives him a pragmatic systems mindset and strong troubleshooting instincts that inform his engineering decisions. Colleagues rely on him to bridge support, product, and engineering needs while shipping practical, maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (32)
asciidoc10
relic10
newrelic10
diagnostics10
backlog10
documentation10
cli9
command-line-interface8
golang7
autosuggest7
developer-tools6
amazon-ec26
autocomplete6
amazon-web-services6
react5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
daffinito/docs-website
Nov 2021 - Jun 2024
Source code and public issue backlog for @newrelic docs.
Contributions:37 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 8 months
newrelicbacklog
newrelic/newrelic-diagnostics-cli
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:16 releases, 39 reviews, 32 commits in 8 months
newrelicrelicnew-relicdiagnosticstechnical-support
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