Chenguang Xu
Software Engineering Manager at Datadog
Dunn Loring, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChenguang Xu is a Software Engineering Manager with a deep full-stack background and four years of recent experience leading serverless and monitoring teams at Datadog. He drives multiple teams focused on workflow and functions monitoring across AWS, Azure, and GCP, combining hands-on Java backend and React frontend skills with operational excellence. Previously he led Prime Video Live Events at Amazon, optimizing customer experience for tens of millions of concurrent users during peak streaming events. His earlier career includes building Java microservices, identity and security components, and data agents at MicroStrategy, underpinned by a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia. Chenguang’s blend of academic rigor and production-scaled system design makes him effective at architecting resilient, stateful streaming and serverless platforms. Based in Dunn Loring, VA, he brings a cross-cloud perspective that’s particularly valuable for observability and distributed workload reliability.
3 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
English, Chinese
Github Skills (35)
monitoring10
hugo10
observability10
stackdriver10
tracer10
distributed-tracing10
drone-ci10
aws-lambda10
azure-functions10
opentracing10
aws-lambda-layer10
pmm10
agent10
go10
aws10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-serverless-functions
Nov 2022 - Nov 2024
Repo of AWS Lambda and Azure Functions functions that process streams and send data to Datadog
Contributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 9 PRs in 2 years
azure-functionsserverlessaws-lambdastreamsaws
DataDog/serverless-plugin-datadog
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Serverless plugin to automagically instrument your Lambda functions with Datadog
Contributions:2 releases, 17 reviews, 8 commits in 4 months
lambda-functionsserverlessaws-lambdaserverless-pluginaws
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