Oscar Barney
Principal Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolOscar Barney is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with seven years of formal experience and a decade-plus track record of technical leadership across enterprise and research environments. He repeatedly builds teams and product-grade systems from concept to production, architecting distributed microservices, data warehouses, and clinical-genomics pipelines that have evaluated thousands of patients. Comfortable translating complex domain knowledge into practical requirements and designs, he blends hands-on coding, DevOps practices, and UX-informed prototyping to accelerate delivery. Known as a high-integrity collaborator and mentor, he has driven hiring, defined engineering processes, and influenced product strategy at organizations from OHSU to New Relic. An early contributor to academic and open-source tooling, he pairs rigorous CS training (MS, University of Utah) with a pragmatic focus on measurable impact in healthcare and observability.
7 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahB.S. and B.A., Computer Science, Mathematics, 3.84, B.S. and B.A., Computer Science, Mathematics, 3.84 at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Github Skills (12)
newrelic10
asciidoc10
documentation10
backlog10
alerts9
relic8
sre6
devops5
monitoring4
observability3
dropwizard3
mybatis2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
obarney/newrelic-quickstarts
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
newrelic/docs-website
May 2021 - Aug 2023
Source code for @newrelic docs. We welcome pull requests and questions on our docs!
Contributions:39 reviews, 38 comments in 2 years 3 months
newrelicbacklogasciidocfeedbackdocumentation-site
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