Chris Kirk
Senior Engineering Manager, Incident App at Datadog
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Kirk is a seasoned software leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across media, consumer hardware, and SaaS. Currently leading Datadog’s Incident Management and Status Pages engineering, he combines hands-on product delivery with operational rigor for reliability-focused systems. His background spans full-stack and backend roles—from redesigning high-traffic editorial sites and interactive news apps to driving content discovery for Peloton’s 7 million members and core HR systems at ADP. Known for turning journalistic curiosity into user-centered product decisions, he also brings teaching experience in data journalism and technical mentorship to his leadership. Based in the New York metro area, he excels at translating complex incidents into pragmatic engineering roadmaps that balance speed, observability, and resilience.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Journalism, Bachelor of Science - BS Journalism at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kirkch/JUnitMosaic
Nov 2013 - Oct 2016
Contributions:40 commits in 2 years 11 months
kirk2022/circle-101
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
A Repo used to explore CircleCI
Contributions:4 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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