Mikaela Schaefer
Senior Software Engineer at New Relic
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMikaela Schaefer is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Greater Pittsburgh region with four years of professional experience building distributed systems and full-stack web applications. At New Relic she moves between greenfield architecture for observability products and maintaining Synthetics, contributing to backend services in Golang and Java while integrating OpenTelemetry, Kafka, GraphQL, and cloud tooling. She brings practical product sensibility—running customer analysis, prototyping, and coordinating cross-team dependencies—to ensure technical decisions map to user needs. Earlier roles at Palo Alto Software sharpened her full‑stack chops (React, Postgres, Docker, AWS) and sparked her interest in improving observability and CI/CD practices. Known for an egoless, collaborative approach, she pairs steady delivery with a curiosity for research-driven solutions. Outside of work she has long experience leading teams in safety‑critical settings, evidencing calm coordination under pressure.
4 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Sciences General, Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Sciences General at University of OregonPittsburgh City Charter High SchoolAssociate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Lane Community CollegeHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Schenley HS
Github Skills (8)
newrelic10
asciidoc10
relic10
backlog10
charts10
documentation9
helm9
kubernetes8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
kaschaefer-nr/docs-website
Nov 2022 - Apr 2024
Source code and public issue backlog for @newrelic docs. We welcome feedback on the docs in GitHub issues!
Contributions:18 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 5 months
newrelicfeedbackbacklogwelcome
kaschaefer-nr/helm-charts
Sep 2022 - Apr 2024
Helm charts for New Relic applications
Contributions:14 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 8 months
chartshelmhelm-charthelm-chartskubernetes
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