Helen Weller

United States

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Helen Weller is an experienced engineering manager and full-stack engineer with 8 years building cloud-native systems using TypeScript, Go, React, Node.js, Docker, and Kubernetes. She currently leads engineering efforts at InfluxData and contributes to their flagship open-source agent, Telegraf, where she has improved parsers, fixed networking tests, and hardened MQTT/Redis integrations. Helen blends hands-on backend QA and feature work with team leadership, ensuring reliability in telemetry and metrics pipelines. Her background in philosophy and certified yoga training hints at a reflective, disciplined approach to problem solving and team wellbeing. Comfortable moving between code and management, she excels at turning complex distributed-system requirements into practical, testable solutions. Helen brings both production-level engineering rigor and a calm, people-centered leadership style to technical teams.

8 years of coding experience

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, 2:1 at University of Nottingham

Yin Yoga, Yin Yoga at Yin Yoga Teacher Training

Yoga Teacher Training/Yoga Therapy, 200 RYT, Yoga Teacher Training/Yoga Therapy, 200 RYT at Himalayan Yoga Institute

Github Skills (18)

json-parser10

json10

csv-parse10

jsonp10

go10

parsing10

csv-parsing10

testing9

mqttnet9

mqtt9

monitoring8

redis8

metric7

golang7

logfile7

Programming languages (10)

TypeScriptJavaShellCSSRustJavaScriptGoFLUX

Github contributions (5)

influxdata/telegraf

Dec 2020 - Oct 2021

Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & QA Engineer

Contributions:176 reviews, 53 commits, 102 PRs in 10 months

Contributions summary:Helen contributed to the `influxdata/telegraf` repository by fixing network tests and adding support for wildcard tags in the JSON parser. They also modified the CSV parser to include the ability to define skip values. Further contributions involved fixing field type inconsistencies in the Redis output and addressing reconnection issues in the MQTT consumer. This indicates involvement in both feature enhancements and testing/quality assurance.

agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf

influxdata/grafana-flightsql-datasource

Dec 2022 - Mar 2023

Grafana plugin for Flight SQL APIs.

Contributions:23 reviews, 175 commits, 99 PRs in 3 months

flightgrafana-pluginflight-sqlsqlapache

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