MauriceĀ Rickard
Software Engineer at New Relic Inc
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarMaurice Rickard is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and developer tooling from Pennsylvania. He contributes to notable open-source projects, including enhancements to the New Relic Node.js agent where he implemented named-pipe telemetry output and refactored serverless collector logic and integration tests. Comfortable working deep in agent and telemetry code, he focuses on maintainability, clear configuration boundaries, and pragmatic fallbacks that improve production robustness. Colleagues value his blend of hands-on coding and thoughtful refactoring that reduces technical debt. Outside of work he describes himself on GitHub simply as "Developer, vertebrate," hinting at a pragmatic, down-to-earth approach to software.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (8)
filesystem10
javascript10
nodejs10
file-operations10
telemetry10
fileio10
testing10
serverless-architectures9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/node-newrelic
Aug 2020 - 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
Back-end DeveloperContributions:624 reviews, 59 commits, 186 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Maurice primarily focused on enhancing the New Relic Node.js agent by introducing the ability to write telemetry data to a named pipe, providing an alternative to standard output. They refactored existing code for improved clarity and maintainability, including moving settings to constructors and refactoring fallback mechanisms. Their work involved modifying core serverless collector functionality and integration tests, particularly related to serverless mode, named pipe usage, and data compression.
gonewrelicnodejs
mrickard/docs-website
Feb 2022 - Apr 2025
Source code and public issue backlog for @newrelic docs.
Contributions:14 PRs, 60 pushes, 42 branches in 3 years 2 months
newrelicbacklog
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