Mirac Kara
Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMirac Kara is a software engineer based in Chicago with six years of experience building reliable backend systems and observability tooling. Currently at New Relic, he contributes to the open-source Go APM agent, improving test suites, distributed tracing support, and integration with frameworks like Echo. He moved from an intern to a full engineer by driving test automation, CI improvements, and custom observability dashboards that sped up debugging and validation. Prior roles at Apple honed his customer-facing troubleshooting, mentorship, and pattern-based diagnostic skills. He holds a Computer Science degree from University of Illinois Chicago and brings a blend of production-grade Go expertise and practical user-focused problem solving. Notably, his open-source commits demonstrate a focus on testability and distributed tracing—areas that materially strengthen observability for Go services.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
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Github Skills (14)
go10
testing10
distributed-tracing9
api8
go-modules8
apidoc8
test-automation7
json6
javascript6
python6
google-visualization6
encryption6
vigenere6
flask6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/go-agent
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
New Relic Go Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:168 reviews, 14 commits, 149 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mirac primarily contributed to the New Relic Go Agent repository by fixing tests related to integrations with the Echo framework. The commits include changes to the `nrecho-v4/nrecho_test.go` file, modifying test expectations and adding new test cases to validate the agent's behavior. In addition, the user added features and bug fixes to support distributed tracing testing, custom events, and modified the `go.mod` file. They also made changes related to go mod tidy, go mod file changes, and bumped the go agent dependency number.
golangnewrelicagentrelicnew-relic
mirackara/go-agent
May 2022 - Mar 2025
New Relic Go Agent
Contributions:177 pushes, 93 branches in 2 years 10 months
golangagentrelicnew-relicmonitoring
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