Christine Chen
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristine Chen is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining agent-based observability systems at Datadog, where she progressed from intern to senior engineer. She specializes in backend and DevOps work—authoring and improving core Datadog Agent features, integrations for 140+ services (including Snowflake, Cilium, Istio, and Filebeat), and production-grade logging and telemetry pipelines. A proven open-source contributor, Christine has driven enhancements across datadog-agent and integrations-core/extras, adding custom tagging, JSON logging, and robust tests that improved metric normalization and aggregation. She mentors new engineers, automated review workflows for community repos, and has presented technical workshops to large audiences, blending hands-on coding with developer education. Based in New York and a Northeastern graduate and Grace Hopper Scholar, she brings a practical focus on observability at scale and a knack for making complex integration work reliably consumable.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (29)
integrate10
python10
testing10
configuration-management10
intergration10
integrations10
filebeat10
go10
logging10
devops10
metric10
data-collection9
observability9
develop9
monitoring9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-core
Jan 2018 - Feb 2022
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1158 reviews, 1028 commits, 1151 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christine primarily contributed to the `datadog/integrations-core` repository by modifying Python code related to various integrations. Their changes include updating default values, reverting code changes, and adding custom tags to different integrations such as Cacti, Directory, Kafka Consumer, Btrfs, NFSStat, HDFS Datanode, MySQL, System Swap, SSH Check, Windows Service, Agent Metrics, Gitlab, Gunicorn, Network, and many more. The contributions appear to be focused on enhancing these integrations by adding features and customization options.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
DataDog/integrations-extras
Nov 2019 - Dec 2021
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:154 reviews, 110 commits, 132 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Christine primarily contributed to the Filebeat integration for the Datadog Agent. Their work included adding a feature to normalize metric names within the Filebeat check, enhancing the flexibility of metric collection. The user also wrote and implemented tests to validate the functionality of the Filebeat integration, specifically focusing on testing metric normalization and data aggregation. They further added a test with the `only_metrics` option and fixed style issues.
datadog-agentintegrationsagentdatadog
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