Kayla Reopelle is a Lead Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with four years of professional experience delivering back-end solutions. At New Relic she focuses on maintaining and modernizing the Ruby agent, driving significant refactors such as removing deprecated Merb support and streamlining Rails-specific code paths to improve long-term maintainability. She brings a pragmatic, test-aware approach to legacy codebases—balancing deprecation strategies, logging fixes, and configuration updates to reduce technical debt. Colleagues rely on her for clear, well-documented changes that make complex agent behavior easier to understand and evolve.
Contributions:11 releases, 1623 reviews, 799 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kayla primarily focused on refactoring and commenting on the New Relic Ruby agent codebase, particularly concerning the removal of deprecated features, and updating configurations. Key contributions involved removing support for the Merb framework and related references, streamlining code related to Rails versions, and addressing issues in logging and testing by utilizing a combination of code modifications and deprecation strategies. The contributions focused primarily on refactoring the existing Ruby code base.
Source code and public issue backlog for @newrelic docs.
Contributions:4 reviews, 13 PRs, 169 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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Kayla Reopelle - Lead Software Engineer at New Relic