Jason Clark
Staff Software Engineer at O'Reilly Media
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJason Clark is a Staff Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 14 years of experience building resilient backend systems and developer tooling. Currently working on GitHub Codespaces, he brings deep production-grade expertise from a long tenure at New Relic where he improved telemetry agents (notably contributing to the well-known newrelic-ruby-agent) and solved thorny MongoDB instrumentation issues. He’s also an author of authoritative Java books, balancing hands-on engineering with clear technical communication. A former Senior Software Architect at WebMD, Jason combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic refactoring and instrumentation skills, and outside work he’s a writer, cyclist, and self-described amateur retinologist—evidence of a curious, detail-oriented mind.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Oregon State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
mongodb-database10
ruby10
mongodb10
error-handling9
refactoring8
performance-optimization8
refactor8
testing8
instrumentation7
powershell6
mercurial6
spree6
ruby-on-rails6
partial-views6
asp-net6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Oct 2012 - Mar 2022
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 2455 commits, 7 PRs in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on improving the New Relic RPM Ruby Agent, with contributions including bug fixes and enhancements to the agent's interaction with MongoDB. They worked on trapping errors before MongoDB calls, extending timeouts, and using MongoDB configuration values. Their work also involved refactoring existing code, adding instrumentation, and refactoring codebase.
agentrpmapm-agentrubyruby-agent
jasonrclark/jasonrclark.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2023
Just another website
Contributions:2 reviews, 396 commits, 30 PRs in 8 years
javascriptnextjsreact
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