Oliver Newland
Senior Software Engineer, Events Analytics Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolOliver Newland is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building backend APIs, storage systems, and data pipelines, currently focused on Sentry’s Events Analytics Platform in San Francisco. He blends deep systems knowledge—particularly with ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and large-scale metrics/indexing—with pragmatic design and hands-on execution, including a developer-friendly jobs system for safe one-off production tasks. A former engineering manager who promoted and mentored multiple reports, he still prefers individual technical impact and guiding junior engineers through complex operational and architectural challenges. His open-source contributions to Sentry’s backend (metrics indexing, schema changes, and deadlock fixes) show a commitment to production reliability at scale. Past work at Amazon and Apple adds experience building high-throughput APIs and data ETLs for consumer features, and an early career mix of machine learning and platform engineering gives him a breadth that spans from applied ML to low-level performance tuning. Colleagues note his ability to translate hard distributed-systems problems into pragmatic, team-aligned solutions that reduce incident friction.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at San Francisco State UniversityBachelors Electrical Engineering, Bachelors Electrical Engineering at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (16)
kafka10
sentry10
postgresql10
indexing10
python10
metric10
django10
ruby9
database-design9
history6
syntax6
regex6
lisp6
operator6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:179 reviews, 55 commits, 64 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the development of backend features, specifically focusing on the metrics and indexing components of the Sentry platform. Their work included implementing functionality for the indexer-last-seen-updater, adding metric type headers, and making the indexer more configurable. They also worked on database schema changes, adding a new performance metrics indexer table, and fixing issues related to deadlocks in the PostgreSQL database.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
onewland/gomud
Jul 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:118 commits in 3 months
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