Brett Jia
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Jia is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building systems, deployment tooling, and automation for large-scale production environments, currently at Datadog after completing graduate research in operating systems at Columbia. He blends a dual background in Computer Science and Business from the University of Michigan with hands-on expertise in Go, Python, C/C++, and CI/CD automation to design GitOps-driven deployment platforms and cross-platform build systems. At Bloomberg he led a deployment tooling team, mentored engineers, and drove technical vision while also contributing to security and identity systems and an internal Go code-generator. An active open-source contributor, he added Intel iGPU monitoring to the popular btop resource monitor and improved cross-platform build automation for the Cosmopolitan C library, reflecting deep systems and virtualization interests. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Brett pairs low-level systems work with developer experience improvements and a track record of shipping robust, production-ready tooling.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Business Administration, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science Business Administration at University of MichiganMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (37)
api-rest10
github-ci10
c-language10
multiplatform10
python10
api-design10
scripting10
restful-api10
linux10
cross-platform10
script10
build-automation10
sh10
rest-api10
shell10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
koush/scrypted
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Scrypted is a high performance video integration and automation platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 21 commits, 147 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Brett primarily focused on improving the integration of the Arlo security system within the Scrypted platform. Their contributions include significant code cleanup, the implementation of battery events, and the start of a doorbell refactor. They addressed issues related to stream functionality and API integration. The user also enhanced the platform by adding features like motion detection and MQTT subscriptions and setting up a new sendgrid implementation.
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jart/cosmopolitan
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
build-once run-anywhere c library
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brett primarily focused on improving the build process and supporting additional architectures within the Cosmopolitan C library project. They updated the `cosmocc` toolchain packaging script to work on macOS, integrating it with GitHub Actions for testing. Furthermore, they implemented checksum verification for downloaded toolchains and expanded `apelink` to support additional architectures and operating systems, including NetBSD. This indicates a strong focus on build automation, cross-platform compatibility, and continuous integration.
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