Derek Niedermayer
Regional Manager, Enterprise Sales Engineering at Datadog
Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Niedermayer is an enterprise sales engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on infrastructure and security experience and three years focused on driving technical strategy and customer success at Datadog. He excels at translating complex monitoring and observability requirements into practical trials and solutions that close enterprise deals while coaching and scaling high-performing SE teams. Derek’s background as an infrastructure architect and manager gives him deep credibility across cloud, virtualization, networking, and SIEM/NDR platforms, enabling him to bridge sales, engineering, and operations effectively. He has a track record of leading POCs, mentoring new hires, and optimizing resource allocation to expand product usage across accounts. Based in Crystal Lake, Illinois, he brings both tactical implementation experience and strategic vision to help customers operationalize observability. An underrated strength is his history running day-to-day infrastructure teams—giving him empathy for customer operational constraints during technical engagements.
3 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BBA CIS Computers Business Administration Computer Information Systems, BBA CIS Computers Business Administration Computer Information Systems at Western Michigan University - Haworth College of BusinessRockford High School Rockford, MI
English
Github Skills (7)
integrations9
datadog9
hugo8
documentation7
monitoring7
dd7
agent7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
phishindsn/phishindsn
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
DataDog/integrations-core
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
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