Mercedes Coyle
Lead Engineer at Harmony Labs
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMercedes Coyle is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience building automation-focused infrastructure and data systems, currently leading engineering at Harmony Labs in the DC-Baltimore area. She’s a practical generalist who ships reliable tooling across cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes) and languages (Go, Python, Elixir, Ruby), with deep experience in observability and distributed datastores like etcd, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch. Mercedes has improved reliability by raising test coverage, implemented function-as-a-service prototypes to rethink rendering workflows, and contributed backend fixes and TLS/etcd integrations to the open-source sensu-go monitoring project. Known for turning operational pain points into reusable systems, she combines systems engineering rigor with a user-centered approach to make engineers’ jobs easier. She avoids IT/AdTech work now, focusing on automation, systems engineering, and scalable developer tooling.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Photography, BA, Photography at San Francisco State UniversityWeb Development, Web Development at Hackbright Academy
Github Skills (13)
mtls10
go10
tls1210
etcd10
tls1310
libtls10
backend9
distributed-systems9
develop9
observability8
monitoring8
golang7
devops6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sensu/sensu-go
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Simple. Scalable. Multi-cloud monitoring.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:183 commits, 39 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Mercedes primarily focused on improving the Sensu Go backend system. Their contributions include implementing and modifying etcd functionality, specifically related to graceful shutdowns, error handling, and adding panic calls for testing purposes. Furthermore, the user has also made significant advancements in implementing TLS configuration, loading certificates, and integrating these configurations into etcd, the API, and agent and dashboard daemons.
golangscalablereactdevopsinfrastructure
mercul3s/mercedescoyle.com-jekyll
Jan 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 45 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 5 months
jekylljekyll-theme
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