Darren Newton
Engineering Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarren Newton is an engineering leader with 16 years of experience building developer-facing and customer web platforms, currently managing teams that build next-generation software release tools at Datadog. He progressed from senior engineer to team lead and now engineering manager, combining hands-on front-end expertise (React/Redux, modern JS) with backend and API design experience from Django/GraphQL projects. Darren blends product-focused engineering with strong design roots from an MFA and early creative-director roles, which helps him shape usable, sustainable systems and cross-functional collaboration. He co-organizes Papers We Love meetups, signaling a devotion to computer science research and continuous learning that informs his technical judgment. Known for a playful intellectual curiosity (parenthesis enthusiast and tea aficionado), he brings both creative sensibility and disciplined delivery to large-scale observability tooling.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, MFA at The School of the Art Institute of ChicagoBFA, BFA at University of HoustonChelsea College of Art
Stackoverflow
2,857reputation
882kreached
35answers
8questions
Github Skills (178)
racket10
vim10
realms10
apollo-client10
computer-science10
theory10
emacs10
paper10
science10
spinnaker10
react10
emacs-lsp9
melpa9
code-golf9
developer-tools9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
papers-we-love/pwlconf-info
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
Materials and accompanying references for all things pwlconf related
Contributions:15 commits, 10 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 1 month
DarrenN/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
rakeinstallerlinuxportabledotfiles
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