Brian Marks
Engineering Manager II at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Marks is an engineering manager and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems and leading teams at Datadog, Braze, TaxBit, and Curalate/Bazaarvoice in the New York metro area. Grounded in computer science, math, and physics (NYU), he blends scientific rigor with practical software craftsmanship—favoring Pythonic minimalism and elegant solutions for hard problems. He has progressed from hands-on engineering to managing and scaling teams across monitoring, analytics, and fintech contexts, delivering reliable production systems. An idealist and continuous learner, he seeks work that meaningfully improves the world and is known for focusing first on core functionality before refining for perfection.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science with Minors in Math and Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science with Minors in Math and Physics at New York UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Herbert H. Lehman High School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (125)
hugo10
braze10
custom-component10
python10
distributed-tracing10
terraform10
security10
profiling10
opentelemetry10
home-assistant10
blackbox-testing10
integration-testing10
monitoring10
javascript10
mqtt10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bm1549/core
May 2021 - Aug 2021
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
Contributions:24 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
home-automation
bm1549/frigidaire
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Python API for the Frigidaire 2.0 App
Contributions:16 releases, 11 reviews, 27 commits in 6 months
python
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