Svetlana Brennan
Software Engineer at New Relic
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSvetlana Brennan is a software engineer with 7 years of experience building observability and full-stack systems, currently working on New Relic’s Node Agent after contributing across their Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry teams. She co-created Retrospect, an open-source full-stack observability tool combining back-end tracing, a Go API, Cassandra storage and rrweb session replay, and led its NPM packaging, containerization, and automated testing. An active contributor to the widely used open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js project, she improved OTLP exporters with compression, timeout and env-config enhancements to better align with the spec. Comfortable across JavaScript, Node.js, React and Go, she pairs hands-on engineering with experience managing remote teams and turning instrumentation challenges into production-ready solutions. Based in Dallas, she blends a marketer’s product sense with deep technical craft from Launch School and a background in marketing.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Bachelor's Degree in Marketing at University of Nevada-Las VegasComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Launch School
Github Skills (9)
http10
javascript10
telemetry10
grpc10
environment-variables9
api9
compression-algorithm9
distributed-tracing9
nodejs9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:111 reviews, 13 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Svetlana contributed to the OpenTelemetry JavaScript client, focusing on enhancing the OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) exporters. Their work included adding compression configurations for both HTTP and gRPC exporters, enabling developers to optimize data transmission. They addressed issues related to timeouts and header handling within the OTLP HTTP exporter. The user also incorporated environment variable configurations for timeouts and security settings within the gRPC exporter, and fixed an issue to align with the spec.
apijavascript-clientjavascripttelemetryotel
svetlanabrennan/node-newrelic
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
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.
Contributions:2 PRs, 249 pushes, 40 branches in 1 year 2 months
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