MC Introduction (for on-stage reading, ~40 seconds)
Please welcome Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic. With 29+ years building cloud-native systems, Harry is passionate about helping teams leverage AI-assisted development — from Copilot SDK integration to observability for AI. He brings deep expertise in Microsoft Aspire, modern architectures, and turning complexity into clarity.
Tiny (28 words, 217 characters)
Cloud-native craftsman with 29+ years building distributed systems and AI solutions. DevRel at New Relic, helping engineers master Aspire, AI-assisted coding, and proactive observability—turning complexity into clarity.
Short (68 words, 545 characters)
Passionate software craftsman with 29+ years experience across development technologies and cloud-native architectures. Expertise with Microsoft Aspire, distributed systems (Dapr), and AI-assisted development including Copilot SDK integration. Focus on application modernization, observability, and securing these environments.
As a Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic, Harry helps engineers, DevOps, and SREs implement proactive observability at scale — including observability for AI systems — leveraging open source technologies and the New Relic platform.
Medium (97 words, 710 characters)
Passionate software craftsman with 29+ years experience across development technologies and platforms. Focused on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack, and cloud-native architectures using Microsoft Aspire and Dapr. Expertise across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP. Passionate about AI-assisted development including Copilot SDK integration. Key focus on observability and security for both traditional and AI systems, application modernization, and model-driven development with code generation.
As a Principal Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic, Harry helps software engineers, DevOps, SREs and operations experts implement proactive observability at scale — including AI observability — leveraging open source technologies and the New Relic platform.
Long (129 words, 960 characters)
Passionate software craftsman with 29+ years experience across development technologies and platforms. Focused on .NET/C#, the Microsoft development stack, and cloud-native software architectures using Microsoft Aspire and the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Expertise across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP. Deeply invested in AI-assisted development, including Copilot SDK integration and responsible AI practices.
Application Modernization has always been central — from mainframe to client/server, and today’s cloud migrations and re-architecture. Expertise includes accelerating architectures through model-driven approaches, best practices, patterns, and code generation. Now extending this to AI-assisted development and intelligent observability.
As a Principal Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic, Harry helps software engineers, DevOps, SREs and operations experts understand and implement proactive, scalable observability — including observability for AI systems — by leveraging open source technologies and the New Relic platform.
