Seth Shober
Senior Technical Solutions Engineer - Google Maps Platform
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeth Shober is a Senior Technical Solutions Engineer on Google Maps Platform with 11 years of hands-on experience building full‑stack JavaScript solutions and improving developer workflows. He blends deep Node and frontend expertise with a strong user‑experience mindset, regularly shipping tools and automations that make Maps APIs and cloud operations more efficient for customers. Seth has a history of customer-facing engineering—from high‑severity support at New Relic to scaling integrations at Google—so he pairs technical problem solving with pragmatic communication. An active contributor to the New Relic Node.js agent, he focuses on reliability, observability, and test-driven improvements under real production constraints. Based in Portland, he brings a builder’s mentality (including hardware repair and even thru‑hiking discipline) to designing useful, user-centered systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Sports and Entertainment Marketing, Sports and Entertainment Marketing at Misericordia UniversityFull Stack JavaScript, Web Development, Full Stack JavaScript, Web Development at Portland Code SchoolBachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems at York College of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (11)
collections10
nodejs10
javascript10
data-collection10
metric10
testing9
debugging9
api8
error-handling8
apidoc8
performance-optimization7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/node-newrelic
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
New Relic Node.js agent code base. Developers are welcome to create pull requests here, please see our contributing guidelines. For New Relic technical support, please go to http://support.newrelic.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the New Relic Node.js agent codebase by addressing bugs and implementing enhancements. Their work included fixing typos, improving the handling of user certificates, adding metrics for transaction events, and adjusting the agent's logging. These changes involved modifications to core agent files and test cases, indicating a focus on improving the agent's data collection and functionality.
gonewrelicnodejs
sethshober/sethshober.github.io
Jan 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:58 pushes in 6 years
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