David Benitez
Software Engineer at Datadog
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Benitez is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience and a BS in Computer Science from RPI, currently building production systems at Datadog after interning there. He has a strong full-stack background from Amazon internships—designing React frontends and AWS-backed services using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and CloudFront—and a growing interest in data science, AI, and HCI reflected in personal projects like a logic engine and game AI work. David combines product-facing feature ownership with infrastructure improvements, such as implementing audit histories for DynamoDB to improve troubleshooting. He has practical leadership experience coordinating large events and teams at SHPE, where he introduced tracking systems for inventory and payments to increase transparency. Based in New Jersey, he brings curiosity about how data can improve daily life and an inclination to bridge cognitive science-inspired design with scalable engineering. He’s comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions and iterating on systems to make them more observable and user-friendly.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Hackensack High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (5)
reasoner8
logic6
python4
automation3
alpaca3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ddoublek/Connect-4-AI
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
ddoublek/Project-Euler-Algorithms
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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