Daniel Trinh
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Trinh is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building fault-tolerant, high-throughput backend systems and data pipelines. He has led teams and owned end-to-end development—from architecture and DevOps automation to performance tuning and API design—at companies like Unity and Datadog, including running ad-auction systems that handled billions of requests per day and saved millions in infrastructure costs. A polyglot engineer comfortable in Go, Scala, Python, Ruby and JavaScript, he designs scalable microservices, distributed systems, and fast-data solutions, and has practical experience with Kafka, Druid, Redis, Aerospike and MongoDB. He also contributes to open-source tooling such as the Scala formatter scalariform, reflecting a focus on maintainability and developer ergonomics. Occasionally sharing technical writing and project notes at danieltrinh.com, he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership and a knack for turning complex operational challenges into reliable, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (5)
sbt10
code-formatting10
scala10
build-automation9
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
scala-ide/scalariform
Dec 2013 - Dec 2015
Scala source code formatter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 5 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Scala code formatter. They implemented new features for parameter alignment and general formatting rules. Additionally, the user refactored code and updated the build process, including upgrading dependencies and adjusting build configurations. Furthermore, they updated the project's documentation and versioning information.
code-formatterscaladottyformatterscala-js
daniel-trinh/daniel-trinh.github.io
Jan 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
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