Jamie Schlessinger
Staff Software Engineer at Skylight
Camas, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJamie Schlessinger is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, resilient systems, currently focused on federated GraphQL platforms and distributed caching. At New Relic he scaled an API platform to 800k requests per minute with 25ms average latency and 100% uptime, growing downstream integrations from 35 to 175 through automated code generation and linting. Comfortable across Elixir, Rails, and Python stacks, Jamie blends pragmatic engineering—automated testing, CI, and careful factoring—with mentoring and team leadership. A founding engineer for startups and a former professional musician, they bring both entrepreneurial initiative and disciplined collaboration to product development. Based in Camas, WA, Jamie is happiest when rapidly learning alongside strong teams and turning complex requirements into reliable, production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music History, Literature, and Theory, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Music History, Literature, and Theory at Brown UniversityFull-stack Ruby on Rails web development, Full-stack Ruby on Rails web development at App Academy
Github Skills (22)
relic10
asciidoc9
elixir9
newrelic9
backlog9
documentation8
agent8
api-server8
realtime7
open-source7
phoenix-framework7
producer4
erlang3
web-framework3
kafka3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jmschles/jmschles.github.io
Nov 2016 - May 2024
Resume
Contributions:4 PRs, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 7 months
jmschles/absinthe
Jul 2020 - Feb 2024
The GraphQL toolkit for Elixir
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
absintheelixirgraphqlgraphiql
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