Brian Devins
Senior Software Engineer at Liberty Mutual Insurance
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolBrian Devins is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years building dependable service-oriented and distributed systems, currently focused at Liberty Mutual after a multi-year tenure at Datadog. He specializes in Java, distributed tracing, and DevOps practices, and contributed test and stability improvements to Datadog’s widely used dd-trace-java agent. Comfortable in both hands-on coding and technical leadership, he has led agile teams at Cox Automotive and mentored engineers while delivering production-grade instrumentation and backend systems. A Clarkson-educated software engineer based in Greater Boston, he combines deep debugging instincts with a practical focus on observability and flaky-test hardening that reduces operational surprises.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Hartford High SchoolBS Software Engineering, BS Software Engineering at Clarkson University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
tracer10
groovy10
testing10
java10
javas10
java-agent10
trace10
http9
netty8
kafka7
elasticsearch6
apache-kafka6
spring-cloud-sleuth6
spring-boot6
docker6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-java
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Datadog APM client for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 798 reviews, 178 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed to the Datadog APM client for Java, primarily focusing on test improvements and bug fixes within the Java agent. Their work involved fixing issues related to HTTP client callbacks, ignoring flaky tests in the Netty instrumentation, and addressing webflux-related code. The user also made several improvements to the reactor-core and lettuce instrumentation tests, and to the general HTTP client testing framework.
apm-clientapmbytebuddydatadoghqtracing
rcm-users/rcm-bootstrap
Nov 2018 - Mar 2022
Bootstrap your rcm controlled dotfiles
Contributions:4 PRs, 48 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 4 months
controlledlinuxdotfilesbootstraprcm
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