David Asker
Engineering Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Asker is an engineering manager based in New York with nine years of experience building and leading data science and analytics teams, most recently at Datadog where he progressed from Data Scientist to Senior Data Scientist and now Engineering Manager. His background blends rigorous academic training (MPhil Politics, Princeton BA) with hands-on data science leadership, including five years as Chief Data Scientist at liwwa, where he shepherded product-focused ML work for financial services. Comfortable at the intersection of product, analytics, and engineering, he has experience translating complex signals into operational telemetry and scalable data-driven features. Prior roles in investment analysis and foreign service, plus language and regional studies in Persian/Dari and Arabic, give him an unusual mix of quantitative, geopolitical, and cross-cultural insight that informs risk-aware decision making. He’s known for moving rapidly from prototype to production while mentoring teams to own reliability and measurement.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Military training Persian (Farsi and Dari) language studies islamic studies history interrogation military, Military training Persian (Farsi and Dari) language studies islamic studies history interrogation military at Försvarets TolkskolaBA Woodrow Wilson School, BA Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton UniversityArabic Language, Arabic Language at Qasid Arabic InstituteMaster of Philosophy (MPhil) Politics, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Politics at University of OxfordOriental studies, Oriental studies at Uppsala University
English, Swedish, Persian, Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
google-sheets10
google-sheet10
gspread9
documentation9
google-sheets-api-v49
google-sheets-api9
hugo9
datadog9
spreadsheet8
python6
time-series4
observability2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dsask/refrains
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
scrapingweb-scrapingcomputer-visionvision
dsask/init
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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