Vetted Datadog Professionals

Chanatip Vachirathanusorn

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and FinTech systems

San Diego, CA2y exp

“Software engineer with AppFolio payments experience who shipped an end-to-end payment adoption rollout during a short internship, including full-stack implementation, stakeholder coordination, and real-time monitoring. Also built an insurance service AI agent inspired by his father's agency, combining structured document ingestion, RAG, and agentic integrations to improve reliability on dense policy documents.”

“Engineering leader with experience owning product engineering strategy, architecture, and org scaling across hospitality/workforce management and insurance startup environments. They describe being brought in to help Fourth Inc. revamp engineering for large-scale enterprise customers, while also scaling teams at The Zebra and staying hands-on with production monitoring, performance analysis, and cross-team architectural execution.”

“Forward-deployed, full-stack/platform engineer who owns production features end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure (AWS serverless, Terraform, React). Has modernized critical fintech/payment systems (zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices with Kafka event sourcing) and productionized AI-native support workflows (LLM + RAG on Pinecone) with measurable gains in latency, incidents, CSAT, and support efficiency.”

“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production incident leadership in a regulated banking environment, using deep OS-level tooling to diagnose CPU entitlement and memory pressure issues. Experienced with HMC/vHMC, VIOS, and zero-downtime DLPAR resizing, plus PowerHA/HACMP clustering and validated failover testing. Also drives migration readiness via Bash/Python automation (60% manual-effort reduction) and phased AIX cloud/hybrid cutovers.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience across containers (ECS) and serverless (API Gateway/Lambda/SQS), plus Glue-based ETL to Parquet for Athena/Redshift. Demonstrates hands-on reliability and security depth (Cognito OAuth2/JWT with JWKS rotation, idempotency/DLQs, monitoring) and measurable performance wins (Redis caching + query tuning), along with legacy-to-services modernization using parallel-run parity and feature-flagged cutovers.”

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

“Infrastructure reliability/capacity-focused engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, VIOS) performance troubleshooting and modern cloud-native delivery experience. Built production CI/CD and Terraform-managed AWS/EKS environments, and has led real incident recoveries spanning Kubernetes autoscaling and AWS quota constraints with concrete RCA and prevention improvements.”

“Data engineer focused on fraud and banking analytics who has owned end-to-end batch + streaming pipelines at very large scale (hundreds of millions of records/day). Built robust data quality/observability layers (schema validation, anomaly detection, alerting) and delivered low-latency serving via AWS Lambda/API Gateway with DynamoDB + Redis, plus external data ingestion/scraping pipelines orchestrated in Airflow with anti-bot protections.”

Jhansi Bendi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems

Antioch, CA18y exp

“Senior engineer/tech lead with 18+ years building large-scale distributed applications, specializing in performance and reliability improvements. Recently owned multiple apps on an email personalization team, shipping major optimizations (including a push-update feature and audience-count architecture redesign) that reportedly lifted system performance from ~50% to ~99% while also leading code standards, reviews, and mentoring.”

“State Street engineer who identifies operational pain points and turns them into high-impact internal platforms, including a service-health monitoring system and a Databricks log standardization pipeline used by 200+ users. Also experiments with practical LLM workflows, having built a Claude-based AI host that dramatically reduced facilitation time for a growing book club.”

“Candidate brings practical GenAI engineering experience with a disciplined approach to AI-assisted development. They have designed lightweight multi-agent workflows for a RAG-based support copilot, including retrieval, relevance validation, response generation, and groundedness checks to reduce hallucinations.”

“Senior engineering leader with deep hands-on experience scaling and stabilizing complex SaaS platforms, including leading the OneLogin identity platform and managing globally distributed teams of up to 105 people. Particularly strong in reliability engineering, infrastructure modernization, and cross-functional execution, with a track record spanning platform unification, enterprise product delivery, and tailored Agile transformations.”

“Built and deployed an LLM + RAG + memory system on a Furhat social robot, adding continuous face/voice recognition embeddings over WebSockets to enable persistent, natural conversations across sessions. Experienced working around real-world hardware/latency constraints and uses Datadog plus structured debugging/rollback practices for stabilizing customer-facing LLM workflows.”

“Engineering leader/CTO-type with deep experience building and scaling a vehicle routing platform at Transdev On Demand, including a nationwide rollout to 22 US airports ahead of schedule. Drove engineering best practices (CI/CD, high test coverage, pair programming, automated deployments) and led a multi-tenant architectural upgrade to expand the routing engine to additional business lines and external customers.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with enterprise-scale observability ownership across Linux plus exposure to Windows/AIX and AWS SaaS. Has led DR exercises and real incidents involving cross–data center traffic failover, with hands-on firewall policy management and automation (Chef/Ansible) for agent deployment and patching; experience includes Bank of America and Discover Financial Services.”

Kanaka Chalam Volety

Screened

Staff DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”

Prasannakumar B Vardi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in low-latency ad targeting and distributed backend systems

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built a high-scale audience segmentation and real-time targeting system using Spark/Glue + S3/Hudi and low-latency API services backed by Redis/relational stores. Demonstrates strong production rigor: Spark performance tuning to eliminate OOM failures, API idempotency/caching to cut p95 latency ~40%, and careful dual-run/feature-flag migrations with reconciliation and rollback runbooks. Experienced implementing layered security with JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC, and database row-level security to prevent privilege escalation.”

Christian Mercer

Screened

Senior Ad Operations leader specializing in CTV and programmatic advertising

Lone Tree, CO8y exp

“Paid media and ad operations specialist with deep CTV/OTT experience at FuboTV, where they owned strategy-to-execution workflows across direct and programmatic business and helped scale revenue from $5.3M to $19.5M while maintaining strong retention and low error rates. Stands out for building custom dashboards, pacing tools, and inventory/pricing models that informed C-suite decisions and helped grow major advertiser relationships like Procter & Gamble from $600K to $5M.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

“Former CTO/CTPO with hands-on experience supporting co-founders through pre-seed to Series B fundraising, including investor technical due diligence and architecture deep-dives. In a logistics company, led a customer-interview-driven effort applying AI and workflow tools that cut customer busywork by ~30% in the first iteration, and has experience planning delivery with onshore/offshore teams (LATAM/India).”

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience who owned end-to-end features on Impact’s Hiring Solutions platform, including a hiring inbox spanning React UI and Postgres data models; the product helped drive 500+ jobs filled shortly after launch. Comfortable designing modern React/TypeScript + Node architectures (GraphQL, testing, migrations) and operating on AWS (RDS, EC2/Fargate, S3, Datadog, CircleCI). Also founded their own startup (Bibbr) and made early-stage stack/infrastructure decisions under high ambiguity.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) managing ~15–25 LPARs across production and DR, including live DLPAR changes and structured performance troubleshooting. Also hands-on with PowerHA/HACMP incident recovery and failover testing, plus broader DevOps delivery building Jenkins CI/CD for containerized microservices and Terraform/Ansible IaC across AWS and Azure, and leading Solaris SPARC to x86 migration cutovers.”

Sanat Ahuja

Screened

Senior Engineering Manager specializing in platform, data/ML, and identity/access systems

Los Angeles, CA16y exp

“Senior engineering leader from Goodyear’s AndGo startup-like division who scaled the org from 12 to 30+ across pod-based teams and introduced an Architect Guild/ARD governance model. Led a 4-month Europe launch requiring AWS regional infrastructure, GDPR compliance, i18n/l10n, and new EMEA reporting pipelines, and has hands-on depth in API performance, incident response, and GraphQL/Hasura adoption to boost product velocity.”