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Jeremy Besson

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Jeremy Besson

Over six months, this developer enhanced the elastic/apm-agent-dotnet repository by delivering features and fixes that improved reliability, diagnostics, and integration coverage for the .NET APM agent. They implemented TLS 1.3 and HTTP proxy support, expanded compatibility with Confluent Kafka 2.x, and introduced runtime diagnostics by logging target framework monikers. Their technical approach emphasized robust error handling, distributed tracing accuracy, and CI/CD stability, using C#, Rust, and YAML across backend development and instrumentation tasks. Through careful debugging, documentation updates, and conditional compilation, they reduced crash risks, improved telemetry, and ensured the agent remained stable and configurable in diverse production environments.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

38%Features

Repository Contributions

17Total
Bugs
8
Commits
17
Features
5
Lines of code
602
Activity Months6

Work History

October 2025

4 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly summary for elastic/apm-agent-dotnet. Focused on CI reliability improvements and expanding .NET agent compatibility with Confluent Kafka 2.x, delivering measurable release stability and broader integration coverage.

September 2025

1 Commits • 1 Features

Sep 1, 2025

Month 2025-09: This period focused on enhancing runtime diagnostics and observability for the Elastic APM .NET agent. Delivered a feature to log the Target Framework Moniker (TFM) for .NET runtimes, improving runtime identification and diagnostics in production.

August 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Aug 1, 2025

Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 focusing on business value and technical achievements across elastic/apm-agent-dotnet. Deliveries include TLS 1.3 support for .NET APM agent, HTTP proxy support for APM server, Linux CI stability fixes, and targeted bug fixes improving request body capture and test reliability. These changes enhance security, compatibility, network operability, CI reliability, and data accuracy, contributing to faster release cycles and improved customer trust.

July 2025

2 Commits

Jul 1, 2025

Monthly summary for 2025-07 focusing on elastic/apm-agent-dotnet. The month centered on hardening ASP.NET Core diagnostics by improving error handling, context initialization, and monitoring data quality. Key features delivered: improvements to error handling robustness and context initialization to ensure baggage can be captured and attached to Error objects, with clear separation of handled vs unhandled exceptions for accurate monitoring. Major bugs fixed: prevented potential NullReferenceException when the 'transaction' is null during Error object initialization; enhanced monitoring accuracy by explicitly marking handled exceptions. Overall impact and accomplishments: increased reliability of the APM agent in ASP.NET Core scenarios, reduced risk of silent failures, and improved data accuracy for alerts and troubleshooting. Technologies/skills demonstrated: C#, ASP.NET Core diagnostics, advanced exception handling, baggage/context management, code refactoring, and commit-level traceability.

June 2025

2 Commits

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary for elastic/apm-agent-dotnet focusing on reliability improvements and tracing correctness. No new customer-facing features released this month; two high-impact bug fixes improved payload handling and distributed tracing, reducing crash risk and improving telemetry accuracy. Commits linked to issues #2606 and #2613.

May 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly summary for elastic/apm-agent-dotnet: Focused on reliability and correctness of .NET instrumentation. Key deliverables include a documentation update for OTEL_LOG_LEVEL in IIS auto-instrumentation to ensure correct configuration, and a critical bug fix that prevents NullReferenceException in Span.TryToCompressRegular by adding null checks for Context, Service, and Target. Release notes were updated (1.32) to reflect the changes. Overall impact: improved production stability for users configuring IIS-based deployments, reduced support incidents related to misconfiguration and crashes, and a cleaner, more maintainable codebase. Technologies/skills demonstrated: .NET instrumentation, OSS collaboration, documentation standards, and release-note discipline.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness91.2%
Maintainability95.2%
Architecture89.4%
Performance89.4%
AI Usage21.2%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashC#CSharpMarkdownRustYAMLasciidoc

Technical Skills

.NET .NET Development C#.NETAPI IntegrationAPMASP.NET CoreAgent DevelopmentAzure FunctionsBackend DevelopmentBug FixBuild SystemsCI/CDConditional CompilationConfiguration Management

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

elastic/apm-agent-dotnet

May 2025 Oct 2025
6 Months active

Languages Used

C#MarkdownasciidocYAMLBashCSharpRust

Technical Skills

Bug FixDocumentationException HandlingSoftware DevelopmentAPI IntegrationBackend Development