Nočnica Mellifera is an Open Source Community leader and developer-relations engineer with 11 years of experience building and advocating for cloud-native systems, specializing in containerized workloads, serverless, and public cloud engineering. After seven years as a developer she transitioned to developer advocacy, driving OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes adoption through talks, workshops, and community growth initiatives that boosted content reach to thousands weekly. Her roles at New Relic, TelemetryHub, Checkly, and now Nava reflect deep hands-on experience translating complex observability and deployment patterns into practical guidance and tooling. Based in Portland, she pairs technical fluency with a creative background in fine arts, brings an educator’s mindset from bootcamp teaching, and balances engineering with a surprising personal portfolio—two children and hundreds of houseplants—underscoring a capacity for nurturing both systems and people.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Fine/Studio Arts, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Fine/Studio Arts, General at University of Oregon
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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