Melissa Lobiondo
Senior Software Engineer, Lead Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Lobiondo is a senior software engineer and technical leader with over two decades of experience building high-performance database and SaaS systems, currently leading the NRQL query language and query engine for New Relic's massive-scale timeseries database. She specializes in query language design, parsing, optimization, and execution using Java and ANTLR, and has a proven track record architecting cloud-native, GDPR-compliant SaaS products for healthcare and financial services. Melissa has repeatedly driven performance improvements at the database and query-engine level—from UniSQL and Win DB to modern observability platforms—bringing deep systems-level expertise alongside hands-on delivery. Comfortable managing onshore/offshore teams, she blends technical leadership with product-minded engineering to turn complex compliance and observability requirements into reliable, scalable services. Based in Austin, she pairs a BS in Computer Science with rare low-level and high-level breadth, including past work in assembler, JNI, and large enterprise Java systems.
4 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (4)
newrelic10
documentation10
asciidoc10
backlog10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
mlobiondo-newrelic/docs-website
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
Source code and public issue backlog for @newrelic docs. We welcome feedback on the docs in GitHub issues!
Contributions:4 PRs, 66 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 10 months
newrelicfeedbackbacklogwelcome
newrelic/docs-website
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Source code for @newrelic docs. We welcome pull requests and questions on our docs!
Contributions:120 reviews, 16 commits, 34 PRs in 9 months
newrelicbacklogasciidocfeedbackdocumentation-site
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