Cody Borders
Senior Sales Engineer - Key Accounts at Datadog
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarCody Borders is a Senior Sales Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of hands-on experience enabling enterprise adoption of observability and cloud platforms. At Datadog he has progressed through multiple SE roles to Lead SE for the largest new-logo land in company history—driving nearly $30M in net new ARR in 2025. Cody blends deep technical expertise in OpenTelemetry and product feedback loops with executive-level communication, routinely educating audiences from level-1 support to C-suite. He also contributes to internal and public documentation, competitive intelligence, and training materials, shaping both product direction and go-to-market enablement. Prior experience at Microsoft FastTrack for Azure informs his approach to migration and cloud readiness at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical advisor who turns complex evaluation requirements into clear, executable adoption plans.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (31)
monitoring10
hugo10
integrations10
agent10
datadog10
opentelemetry10
dd10
otel10
documentation10
event-manager9
rails8
lambda7
ruby7
aws-lambda7
serverless6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
codyborders/blog
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:44 PRs, 49 pushes, 12 branches in 9 days
andrewdwooten/headcount
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:31 PRs, 30 pushes, 4 branches in 8 days
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