Tyler Finethy
Engineering Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Finethy is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience, currently leading Datadog’s dynamic instrumentation libraries team in New York. He previously ran product and engineering for Posit’s Package Manager and led the RStudio Package Manager team, combining hands-on engineering with hiring, mentoring, and product strategy. He created and maintained the R advisory database used to track security vulnerabilities across CRAN and Bioconductor, reflecting deep involvement in the R ecosystem and supply-chain security. With academic training spanning physics, biochemistry, mathematics, and computer science (McGill, UNH, MS work at Georgia Tech), he brings a multidisciplinary lens to tooling and observability challenges. Tyler balances pragmatic delivery and developer experience with a history of teaching and startup leadership that keeps teams growing and focused on real-world impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry and Mathematics at University of New HampshireBachelor of Science (B.S.), Honours Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Honours Physics and Computer Science at McGill University
English
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Github Skills (200)
middleware10
tracer10
apm10
pmm10
swagger-210
programming-language10
annotations10
open-telemetry10
opentelemetry10
checkout10
headless-browser10
apm-agent10
kubernetes10
lftp10
datadog10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
tylfin/tylfin.github.io
Aug 2016 - Oct 2022
GitHub Page
Contributions:1 PR, 54 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 2 months
javascript
tylfin/solar
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
WebGL and ThreeJS solar system simulation
Contributions:1 review, 26 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 4 months
webglsolarjavascriptwebgl2simulation
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