Summary
Adam La Mar is a Technical Escalations Engineer with a decade of experience diagnosing and resolving complex production issues across observability, cloud, and telemetry stacks. At Datadog he’s the in-house expert for APM and OpenTelemetry, guiding engineering teams and influencing product decisions for AWS, GCP, and Azure deployments. He previously built high-touch integration support at Meta’s WhatsApp, led pods and long-running implementation efforts, and helped scale Intercom from startup to unicorn while shipping tooling and developer docs. Comfortable across APIs, mobile, databases, containers, and AI, he pairs hands-on debugging with sandboxed test environments he’s developed to reproduce elusive bugs. Based in San Francisco and grounded in a Computer Science degree, he’s equally at home mentoring peers as he is diving head-first into unknown technical challenges. His GitHub hosts a range of side projects that reflect a practical, curiosity-driven approach to engineering.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
De La Salle High School
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Gonzaga University