Derek Brown
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Cribl
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Brown is a senior staff software engineer based in San Jose with nearly three decades of deep expertise in TCP/IP, VPNs, firewalls, and packet-level network software, and nine years focused on SaaS and cloud-native monitoring. He has led and shipped complex Windows and cross-platform agents—from Palm device TCP/IP stacks to Datadog’s Windows Agent and security monitoring packages—building drivers, protocol analysis, and full CI/CD pipelines. As a hands-on engineering leader he has repeatedly been the sole or principal engineer delivering endpoint agents, installers, and drivers, and he now drives platform work at Cribl after a decade at Datadog. His open-source contributions include enhancing Datadog Agent integrations (notably adding ODBC-based SQL Server connectivity) showing he blends product-grade engineering with community-facing work. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that bridges low-level networking and scalable observability. He holds a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley and brings both legacy systems know-how and modern observability practice to hard networking problems.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (11)
windows10
sql-server10
intergration10
integrate10
performance-monitoring10
python10
integrations10
mysql9
iis9
automation8
automations8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-core
Feb 2017 - Feb 2022
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 65 commits, 71 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of integrations within the Datadog Agent, focusing on features for monitoring SQL Server and other systems. They introduced functionality to connect to SQL Server via ODBC, enabling broader database compatibility. The user also worked on process monitoring, making process name comparisons case-insensitive on Windows, and enhanced the MySQL and IIS integrations. The work included bug fixes and refactoring for improved functionality.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
r00tjimmy/datadog-agent
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Datadog Agent
Contributions:70 commits in 1 year 4 months
golangdatadog-agentagentmonitoringopen-telemetry
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