Jon Guymon
Principal Software Engineer at Vectra AI
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Guymon is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland with 17 years of experience building and leading high-throughput backend platforms, large-scale distributed systems, and cloud migrations. He has driven critical projects at New Relic—ranging from automatic query recovery in a timeseries DB to dynamic load routing and large-scale credential rotation—and now applies that expertise at Vectra AI. Jon blends hands-on engineering (notably maintaining and improving New Relic’s Ruby agent instrumentation) with leadership roles that transformed data center teams and championed SRE practices during a full cloud transition. Known for turning dysfunctional teams into efficient, DevOps-driven organizations, he excels at designing resilient, cost-effective infrastructure for real-time observability. A practical tinkerer at heart, he pairs deep systems knowledge with pragmatic improvements to logging, testing, and operational tooling.
17 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at West Virginia University
Github Skills (3)
unit-testing10
ruby10
logging9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Jun 2011 - Apr 2013
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:746 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the New Relic RPM Ruby Agent, focusing on enhancements related to DelayedJob instrumentation. They implemented conditional logging for DelayedJob hooks, added unit tests for these conditions, and addressed issues in versioning. Their contributions show a focus on improving logging and general functionality within the agent.
newrelicrubyagentapm-agent
gnarg/hakureishodo
Aug 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:99 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
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