Colin Kirkpatrick
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Kirkpatrick is a software engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building web applications and advocating for adaptable, user-friendly code and error messaging. He has held full-stack and lead roles across startups and mid-size companies, most recently joining Datadog after senior engineering work at Ferry and Findigs. Comfortable at the whiteboard and in front of mixed-technical audiences, he bridges developer relations and hands-on implementation across React, Vue, Django/DRF, and various backend services. He has led small teams, owned DevOps and CI workflows, and shipped eCommerce and internal tools—often combining front-end polish with pragmatic backend design. A Virginia Tech CS graduate, he also maintains a public developer presence on GitHub, reflecting a consistent web-focused craft even when working on backend systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Github Skills (175)
json-parser10
starter-kit10
memory-efficient10
python10
zero-copy10
react-table10
pair-programming10
datatable10
reactjs-components10
cross-language10
c9910
grouping10
datagrid10
javascript10
marshalling10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
colindjk/flatbuffers
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
Contributions:40 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
memoryserializationflatbuffersserialization-libraryserializer
colindjk/VTAccounts
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
Bookkeeping app for Virginia Tech used to manage payments, employee salaries and indirect/fringe rates.
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
paymentsfringeratesvirginiaandroid
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