James Sumners
Senior Software Engineer at New Relic
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Sumners is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, primarily using Node.js and increasingly Go, with experience building core platform frameworks, CI/CD, and REST APIs for both internal teams and customer-facing products. He has driven migrations to AWS Fargate, led integration projects crucial to business operations, and helped deliver API gateways and OpenTelemetry tooling in production. A core maintainer of major open-source JavaScript projects (Pino, Fastify) and lead maintainer of LDAPjs, he brings deep ecosystem knowledge that accelerates developer productivity and reliability. Based in the Atlanta area, he pairs a mathematics background with hands-on execution across startups and observability platforms, and maintains a notable presence in open source that influences how teams build and monitor distributed systems.
2 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Clayton State University
Github Skills (163)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-node-versions
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 reviews, 38 PRs, 22 pushes in 11 months
jsumners-nr/node-newrelic
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
New Relic Node.js agent code base. Developers are welcome to create pull requests here, please see our contributing guidelines. For New Relic technical support, please go to http://support.newrelic.com.
Contributions:563 pushes, 324 branches in 1 year 5 months
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