Jesse Dearing
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarJesse Dearing is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 16 years designing, operating, and scaling production systems across startups and large enterprises. He blends hands-on software engineering in Go, Python, and JavaScript with deep operational experience running databases, Kubernetes, Kafka-compatible systems, and cloud services. Jesse has repeatedly built developer-facing tooling—CLIs, deployment automation, and CI/CD improvements (including contributions to the New Relic Ruby agent pipeline)—to simplify ops and accelerate teams. His background includes founding database and platform efforts at New Relic and leading Tanzu Mission Control infrastructure at VMware, where he translated product requirements into repeatable platform patterns. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, on-call toughness, and coaching engineers to improve reliability and cost efficiency. He’s equally comfortable optimizing a MySQL fleet, authoring automation in Go, or improving CI scripts to make releases less painful.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (22)
scripting10
cicd10
automation10
script10
sh10
automations10
shell10
devops10
git9
ruby9
windows9
ssh9
agent8
apm-agent7
html6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline for the `newrelic-ruby-agent` repository. Their contributions involved modifying the `ci.sh` script to enhance build processes, including adding and removing bundler caching, updating ruby versions, and ignoring failures. They also addressed issues related to git fetching and gemset management, ensuring more robust and reliable continuous integration for the Ruby agent. These changes aimed to streamline the build process and improve the overall development workflow.
newrelicrubyagentapm-agent
jessedearing/dotfiles
Aug 2011 - Oct 2022
Contributions:649 commits, 356 pushes, 6 branches in 11 years 4 months
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