Chenmin Cao
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChenmin Cao is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, production-critical systems across monitoring, trading, and financial platforms. Currently at Datadog, Chenmin focuses on APM telemetry and analytics, after leading CI/CD and mobile continuous delivery efforts at Facebook and developing low-latency C++ trading systems at Bloomberg. With a strong quantitative foundation from Zhejiang University and Cornell (Operations Research & IE), they combine deep systems engineering with applied math to solve performance and reliability challenges. Chenmin has also led platform initiatives in wealth and alternative investment tech using C#/.NET and modern front-end stacks, demonstrating a breadth from infrastructure to full-stack delivery. Notably, their background spans both academia and industry—teaching machine learning at Cornell while shipping large-scale engineering projects—bringing a pragmatic, research-informed approach to observability and release engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hangzhou Foreign Languages SchoolMaster's degree, Operations Research & Information Engineering, Master's degree, Operations Research & Information Engineering at Cornell UniversityBachelor's Degree, Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics & Applied Mathematics at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (20)
debugging10
security10
profiling10
datadog10
logging10
stackdriver9
hugo9
observability9
monitoring9
apm9
python9
distributed-tracing9
apm-agent9
agent9
pmm9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
billyac/hello-world
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
billyac/Avito
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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