Vera Reynolds
Software Engineer at honeycomb.io
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolVera Reynolds is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building observability, payments, and cloud-native systems, currently contributing to Honeycomb's open-source instrumentation and data ingest libraries from Raleigh, NC. She has progressed from hands-on engineering to engineering management and back to engineering, demonstrating both technical depth and team leadership in fast-moving product environments. Vera has a strong background in observability—contributing to the notable open-telemetry JavaScript project by improving shim-opentracing, OTLP gRPC exporter, and AWS detector behaviors—which underscores her attention to reliable telemetry and test automation. Her career includes full-stack work across mobile and web at Pivotal and systems-focused payments work at CircleCI, giving her a pragmatic cross-domain perspective. With dual degrees in Computer Science and Psychology, she brings both technical rigor and human-centered thinking to designing developer tooling and instrumentation. Colleagues rely on her for shipping robust integrations that make complex distributed systems more observable and testable.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology at University of MichiganBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Eastern Michigan University
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Github Skills (10)
opentelemetry10
javascript10
grpc10
testing10
nodejs9
api8
amazon-eks8
distributed-tracing8
metric8
telemetry8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js
Apr 2021 - Jul 2021
OpenTelemetry JavaScript Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vera made several contributions focused on improving the OpenTelemetry JavaScript client, specifically within the shim-opentracing and OTLP gRPC exporter packages. They fixed issues related to awaiting HTTP responses in the AWS EKS detector, enhanced the shim-opentracing package with propagator configuration, updated logging mechanisms, and corrected setTag functionality. The user also implemented and tested features like headers environment variables, which directly improved the functionality and testability of the OpenTelemetry JavaScript client.
apijavascript-clientjavascripttelemetryotel
honeycombio/rdslogs
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
connector to grab RDS logs and send them to honeycomb
Contributions:11 reviews, 9 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 2 months
rdsgrabconnectorlogginghoneycomb
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