Bowen Brooks
Software Engineer at Datadog
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBowen Brooks is a software engineer with eight years of experience building and supporting observability tooling, now on Datadog’s engineering team in Denver after progressing from solutions and technical escalation roles. He specializes in Python, Node, React, and Django, and has contributed backend improvements to Datadog’s dd-trace-py APM client—adding runtime metrics, sampling rules, and test coverage to make configuration and logging more robust. Bowen combines customer-facing troubleshooting experience with hands-on engineering, giving him a practical lens for reliability and developer experience. A UC Santa Cruz computer engineering graduate, he pairs systems thinking with a penchant for clear documentation and reproducible diagnostics born from his time in high-pressure support and product-facing roles.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Santa Rosa Junior CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Baskin Engineering at UCSC
English
Github Skills (11)
debugging10
debug10
python10
apm10
testing10
tracer9
trace9
observability9
cil8
error-log7
monitoring7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-py
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Datadog Python APM Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 7 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bowen contributed to the Datadog Python APM client by adding runtime metrics, sampling rules, and related tests to startup logs. They also implemented environment variable configuration for sampling rules, enhancing the flexibility of the application. Furthermore, the user moved constants and updated tests. These changes improved the logging, configuration, and testing of the Python APM client.
profilingpythonapm-clientapmsecurity
bojbrook/Smashbot
Jun 2019 - Sep 2022
A Discord bot relating to super smash bros
Contributions:2 PRs, 36 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 3 months
discord-jssmash-brosdiscordsuper-smash-brosbot
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