Devin Burnette
Staff Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDevin Burnette is a Staff Engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience building resilient, cloud-native platforms and leading reliability and developer experience initiatives for high‑traffic financial services. Based in New York, he has driven major platform migrations to Kubernetes, slashed CI build times and flakiness, and built internal tools including an LLM-powered support assistant and authentication libraries used across ops teams. He blends deep systems expertise (AWS, Terraform, Postgres, Docker/K8s) with pragmatic DevOps automation and observability practices, and has a track record of open-source contributions—enhancing policy enforcement in the popular palantir/policy-bot. Known for translating complex reliability goals into measurable outcomes, he also mentors senior hires and shapes cross-functional disaster recovery and platform health processes.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Technology Seal Cisco Network Academy CCNA Curriculum, Advanced Technology Seal Cisco Network Academy CCNA Curriculum at Chesterfield Technical CenterB.S. Information Technology Minor in Business, B.S. Information Technology Minor in Business at George Mason University
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Github Skills (9)
golang10
enforcement10
gpo10
go10
github-app10
policies10
code-review10
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/policy-bot
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
A GitHub App that enforces approval policies on pull requests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 11 commits, 13 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Devin primarily contributed to the `policy-bot` project by implementing features related to approval policies for pull requests. They added functionality to ignore edited comments and reviews, and support for environment variables in the server configuration. The user also worked on improving the trigger conditions for evaluations and refined the system by dismissing stale reviews. Their work demonstrates a focus on enhancing the core logic and functionality of the application.
golangpolicyocto-correct-managedapprovalpolicies
devinburnette/policy-bot
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
A GitHub App that enforces approval policies on pull requests
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 72 pushes in 3 years 3 months
policiespull-requestsapproval
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