Benson Fung
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenson Fung is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience building product-focused systems and leading teams, currently shaping observability at Datadog from Irvine, CA. He is a generalist systems builder with deep hands-on expertise in scalable web infrastructure, data engineering/warehousing/BI/MLOps, and security, able to bridge product requirements with reliable operational systems. Benson has entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder and CEO, bringing a founder’s pragmatism to architectural trade-offs and team processes. His background spans early R&D and software engineering roles, giving him a habit of digging into low-level technical details while driving high-level strategy. Colleagues rely on him to deliver practical, auditable solutions and to coach teams through complex, cross-functional projects.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (54)
rust-lang10
monitoring10
observability10
observability-data10
data-transformation10
etl10
agent10
datadog10
stream-processing10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
telemetry10
text-to-image9
hearthstone9
vector9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bfung/personal-settings
Jan 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 years 10 months
bfung/bfung.github.com
Mar 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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