Jessica Lopatta
Staff Software Engineer at Pie Insurance
Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Lopatta is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems, test automation, and developer-facing tooling across companies from startups to enterprise. Based in Maryland, she blends hands-on engineering with mentorship, helping peers level up while driving improvements in code quality and documentation. Her open-source contributions include strengthening the New Relic Node.js agent’s test suite and enhancing the docs website with EOL automation and UX fixes, showing a rare mix of deep testing, backend logic and frontend polish. She has held senior and staff roles at New Relic, Pie Insurance, Lunchbox and T. Rowe Price, bringing production-grade expertise in observability and release workflows. Early curiosity about computers has matured into a pragmatic, team-focused approach that values maintainability and developer experience as much as feature delivery.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Computer Technology, Computer Technology, Certificate in Computer Technology, Computer Technology at Carroll County Career and Tech CenterBachelors, Computer Information System, Bachelors, Computer Information System at Stevenson University
Github Skills (16)
test-automation10
unit-testing10
nodejs10
javascript10
gatsby10
documentation10
date-fns10
integration-testing10
testing10
markdown9
front-end-development9
markdown-it9
fastify9
api8
react8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/node-newrelic
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
New Relic Node.js agent code base. Developers are welcome to create pull requests here, please see our contributing guidelines. For New Relic technical support, please go to http://support.newrelic.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:234 reviews, 188 commits, 137 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily contributed to the testing of the Node.js agent. Their work included adding and updating unit and integration tests for various components like the logger and configuration library. Furthermore, the user updated existing tests to improve maintainability. They also added comprehensive tests that integrated with Fastify.
newrelicagentnode-jspull-requestsnodejs
newrelic/docs-website
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Source code for @newrelic docs. We welcome pull requests and questions on our docs!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 20 commits, 22 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jessica's contributions focused on enhancing the documentation website. They implemented a function to generate End-of-Life (EOL) dates based on release dates and EOL policies, and integrated it into the agent-release-notes generation process. Further, the user resolved merge conflicts and updated layout components and search functionality, indicating a focus on both content and user experience within the documentation platform. These changes demonstrate their involvement in both backend logic and frontend modifications.
newrelicbacklogasciidocfeedbackdocumentation-site
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