Jay Mcgrath
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Mcgrath is a product-focused Software Development Engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable, user-centered systems and APIs, currently improving efficiency and scalability for AWS EC2 Instance Quality. He blends full-stack chops—Java Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/React—with DevOps and on-call experience to bridge product needs and technical execution. At New Relic he reduced user friction for monitoring workflows and contributed to open-source tooling, including enhancements to the widely used newrelic Terraform provider. Jay prioritizes value over vanity features, often opting for contextual UX improvements, docs PRs, or better API error responses that preempt support load. His background as a technical support engineer and community organizer gives him strong user empathy and a knack for turning real customer pain into durable engineering solutions. Based in Portland, he brings a linguistics BA and an analytical mindset shaped early by professional poker and solo web development.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin
English, German
Github Skills (12)
alertdialog10
terraformer10
newrelic10
go10
alertview10
api10
alerts10
apidoc10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
developer-tools9
cicd8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/terraform-provider-newrelic
Oct 2020 - May 2022
Terraform provider for New Relic
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 18 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jay primarily contributed to the New Relic Terraform provider, focusing on enhancing the `nrql_alert_condition` resource. Their work included adding support for the `aggregation_window` and `slide_by` attributes, as well as modifications to the `violation_time_limit` field. They also addressed validation issues for alert muting rules and removed references to a deprecated resource. Furthermore, the user added support for schedule configurations to the alert muting rule.
newrelicterraform-providerterraformdeveloper-toolkitdeveloper-tools
teamtortuga/catfacts
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
A repo for practicing different git workflows
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
git-workflow
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