Mya Longmire

Hamburg, Germany

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Mya Longmire is a backend engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, production-grade systems, currently contributing to Vinted’s Tracking Team from Hamburg. She focuses on backend solutions that improve observability and data reliability, with practical expertise in metric collection and plugin development. Her open-source work on the widely used InfluxData/Telegraf project—adding smartctl power-mode support and fixing InfluxDB output retry bugs—demonstrates attention to storage health metrics and robust integrations. Mya blends hands-on coding with pragmatic bug fixes and dependency upkeep, helping keep monitoring tooling stable at scale. A Computer Science graduate from New Mexico Tech, she pairs strong fundamentals with real-world telemetry and systems engineering experience.

10 years of coding experience

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

English, German

Github Skills (8)

telegraf10

debug10

go10

influxdb10

metric10

plugin10

time-series9

monitoring9

Programming languages (9)

C#TypeScriptShellRustJavaScriptVueGoMustache

Github contributions (5)

influxdata/telegraf

Jun 2021 - Oct 2022

Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.

Role in this project:

Backend Developer

Contributions:4 releases, 492 reviews, 99 commits in 1 year 4 months

Contributions summary:Mya primarily contributed to the `telegraf` agent, focusing on the `smartctl` input plugin for collecting hardware health metrics. Their work included implementing a feature related to `powermode` for smartctl, which involves retrieving and displaying power-related information from storage devices. They also addressed a bug related to endless retries in the InfluxDB output plugin, improving its reliability. Additionally, the user updated dependencies, including gjson and signalfx, and made several other bug fixes to improve the stability of the plugin.

agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf

MyaLongmire/telegraf

Aug 2022 - Nov 2022

The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.

Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months

snmpagentreportingpmmcollecting

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