Cheryl Sabella
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Henrico County, Virginia, United States Other
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Top SchoolCheryl Sabella is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of modern software experience and a long track record in enterprise systems stretching back to the 1990s, currently contributing to observability at Datadog from Virginia. She brings deep hands-on expertise across cloud infrastructure, Python, and legacy IBM i (AS/400) systems, having migrated business-critical claims and billing platforms and later modernized cloud tooling and IDE features. An active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like CPython and Cloud Custodian, she has improved documentation, core language docs, and AWS-focused rule-engine functionality. Cheryl combines pragmatic engineering with technical writing chops—clarifying developer workflows and reducing friction for other contributors—reflecting a rare blend of systems-level pragmatism and developer empathy.
9 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BA Mathematics and Theatre, BA Mathematics and Theatre at Binghamton University
Github Skills (24)
git10
restructuredtext10
github10
cloud-computing10
python10
qt10
editor10
rule-engine10
aws10
code-editor10
engine10
documentation10
debug9
develop9
debugging9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
python/cpython
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
The Python programming language
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 507 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Cheryl primarily contributed to the Python documentation. Their commits involved clarifying documentation for built-in functions, improving documentation for the time module, adding more details and links to the ipaddress documentation, and updating the re.escape and print separator usage sections within the tutorial. They also added a table of str methods to stdtypes.rst and updated the bdb and wsgiref documentation, correcting spelling and other errors.
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python/devguide
Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
The Python developer's guide
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 28 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Cheryl primarily contributed to the documentation of the Python developer's guide. Their commits focused on clarifying existing content, updating links to GitHub, and modifying the structure and presentation of the documentation. The user also updated documentation on the process to apply patches from Mercurial to Git and how to checkout the maintenance branch. These changes improved clarity, corrected outdated information, and enhanced the overall user experience of the documentation.
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