Jamie Danielson
Senior Software Engineer at OpenTelemetry
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJamie Danielson is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience who blends hands-on engineering with cross-functional leadership at Honeycomb and as an active maintainer and approver for OpenTelemetry JavaScript. He builds and maintains open-source libraries across Go, Python, Java, JavaScript, C# (.NET), and Ruby, and has contributed notable improvements to the widely used OpenTelemetry JS client—adding ESM support and User-Agent headers for exporters. Jamie’s background spans technical project management, team supervision, and eCommerce engineering, giving him a pragmatic product-focused approach to observability and integrations. Based in New Jersey, he pairs an accounting and communications education with a knack for automating reporting and improving operational workflows. Colleagues describe him as curious, determined, and skilled at aligning stakeholder expectations while shipping durable, production-ready tooling.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Communication Studies, B.A. Communication Studies at Stockton UniversityBSBA Accounting, BSBA Accounting at Thomas Edison State UniversityA.A. Liberal Arts, A.A. Liberal Arts at County College of Morris
Github Skills (10)
distributed-tracing10
opentelemetry10
javascript10
instrumentation10
back-end-development10
telemetry10
metric10
api9
nodejs9
grpc8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:169 reviews, 22 PRs, 3 branches in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily focused on implementing and improving OpenTelemetry JavaScript instrumentation, specifically addressing features like ESM support and adding user agent headers to various exporters. They modified code to support ESM in instrumentation, and added User-Agent headers to OTLP trace, metric, and gRPC exporters. Additionally, the user updated and refactored existing codebase to utilize exported strings, along with updating deprecated aspects.
apijavascript-clientjavascripttelemetryotel
JamieDanielson/py4e
Nov 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
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