Kristof Bauer
Senior Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolKristof Bauer is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Diego with a strong background in building and operating distributed backend systems on AWS. Over three years in senior and mid-level roles at New Relic and Scandio, plus earlier consulting experience, he brings practical experience shipping reliable production services. Trained as a mathematician at the Technical University of Munich, he applies rigorous analytical thinking to system design and aspires to evolve into a Software Architect. A collaborative teammate and mentor, he values knowledge-sharing and continuous learning within engineering teams. Having recently relocated to the U.S., he combines European consulting discipline with hands-on cloud-native engineering at scale.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics at Technical University of Munich
Github Skills (16)
relic10
distributions10
whenever10
backlog9
telemetry9
darwin9
newrelic9
asciidoc8
linux8
opentelemetry8
windows8
otel8
documentation6
opentelemetry-collector4
developer-tools2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kb-newrelic/docs-website
Dec 2022 - Mar 2025
Source code and public issue backlog for @newrelic docs. We welcome feedback on the docs in GitHub issues!
Contributions:15 PRs, 4 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 2 months
newrelicfeedbackbacklogwelcome
newrelic/nrdot-collector-releases
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Handle the configuration files for the OpenTelemetry New Relic distributions.
Contributions:3 releases, 125 reviews, 198 PRs in 5 months
distributionsnewrelicwindowslinuxwhenever
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