Benny Wong
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenny Wong is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable distributed systems, currently at Datadog where he architects ingestion pipelines that handle millions of datapoints per second and designs cloud-agnostic utilities for authenticated AWS, Azure, and GCP operations. He combines strong backend skills in Go, Python, and Java with hands-on experience in CI/CD, telemetry, and performance-focused engineering from internships and early roles. Benny’s academic background in combined honours Mathematics and Computer Science from UBC complements his practical work—he has applied combinatorial optimization techniques to nonlinear gameplay research and has a track record of mentoring students as a long-running teaching assistant. Comfortable across production systems and algorithmic problems, he brings both operational rigor and a curiosity for optimization to challenging cloud-native problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Combined Honours Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Combined Honours Mathematics and Computer Science at University of British Columbia
Github Skills (17)
monitoring10
integrations10
agent10
profiling10
datadog10
logging10
stackdriver9
observability9
distributed-tracing9
apm-agent9
pmm9
otel9
dd9
opentelemetry8
go8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BennyW23/dotfiles
Apr 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
BennyW23/AdventOfCode
Apr 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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