Lyn Nagara is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems and DevOps tooling. At Sentry since 2017, Lyn has driven core eventstream work—implementing transaction partitioning, Kafka topic orchestration, and deployment improvements that hardened observability at scale. Prior experience at Contentful adds strong content-platform exposure and distributed system know-how. Comfortable across backend engineering and operations, Lyn pairs pragmatic production-first changes with thoughtful dependency updates and cleanup. Colleagues value Lyn’s steady focus on shipping durable infrastructure improvements that quietly reduce operational friction.
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:728 reviews, 1400 commits, 3032 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lyn contributed to the core functionality of the Sentry platform by implementing new features related to the eventstream, specifically focusing on partitioning of transactions. They worked on Kafka integration, including the creation of new topics and the configuration of consumers. Additionally, the user removed deprecated code, updated dependencies (Arroyo), and improved the deployment process by ensuring all necessary topics are created in the devserver.
Contributions:42 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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Lyn Nagara - Senior Software Engineer at Sentry (sentry.io)