Carlos Santos
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlos Santos is a Senior Software Engineer and WebOps-focused frontend specialist based in New York with six years of professional engineering experience and a background that blends psychology with technical delivery. At Datadog he has progressed from engineer to team lead and engineering manager, contributing directly to user-facing documentation UI work for high-profile repos like DataDog/documentation. He favors meticulous attention to detail—often refining navigation, responsive menus, and localized UI text—to improve user experience and accessibility. His career includes frontend roles at Scientific American and Nestlé Nespresso, giving him a strong content-driven and product-facing perspective. Carlos combines hands-on implementation skills with people leadership, coaching teams to ship polished interfaces at scale. An unusual strength is his psychology training, which he leverages to design clearer, more usable web interactions.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Psychology, Masters Psychology at The City College of New YorkBachelor's Degree Psychology, Bachelor's Degree Psychology at Rutgers University - Newark
Github Skills (7)
html10
javascript10
front-end-development10
documentation9
hugo9
css9
responsive-design9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
DataDog/documentation
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:47 reviews, 101 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily contributed to the user interface of the Datadog documentation site. Their work included implementing a hamburger menu for smaller screens, adding conditional "Free trial" text based on the language, and integrating icon fonts into navigation elements. Additionally, the user updated and formatted various HTML and JavaScript files related to the site's layout and search functionality, demonstrating a focus on user experience and visual presentation.
wikihugodatadogdocumentation-site
DataDog/integrations-core
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
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