Brandon Smith
Co-Founder & CTO at Founders, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Smith is a Co-Founder and CTO based in New York who builds trusted AI tools for public policy professionals, combining product instincts with deep systems engineering. He previously led product efforts at Datadog on serverless monitoring and at Microsoft across Windows container platform, AKS, and kernel-level work, giving him rare visibility from cloud-native orchestration down to OS internals. His engineering roots include distributed timing systems and precision time protocol work at the UNH InterOperability Lab, and he founded a university makerspace that reflects his community-building and hands-on prototyping mindset. With BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire, he moves fluidly between product strategy and low-level technical implementation. Though early in his founder journey, he pairs startup grit with enterprise-scale experience, positioning Helios to tackle rigorous compliance and reliability requirements in AI for policy.
2 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS & MS Computer Science, BS & MS Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (13)
datadog10
hugo10
documentation10
debugging6
profiling6
security5
python5
telemetry5
php4
apm4
ruby3
observability2
rust2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
DataDog/documentation
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Contributions:15 reviews, 1 PR, 1 branch in 11 months
wikihugodatadogdocumentation-site
DataDog/libdatadog
Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
Datadog shared rust-based library. For now only used in other products (e.g. Ruby or PHP libraries).
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
profilingphp-librariesapmrustphp
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