Drew Wyatt
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarDrew Wyatt is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building web-scale products across companies like Datadog, ClassDojo, and Peloton. He brings a full‑stack sensibility developed through progressive engineering roles from front-end developer to staff engineer, shipping customer-facing features and scalable services. Drew contributes to high-profile open-source projects—most notably enhancing TypeScript definitions in the widely used DefinitelyTyped repo to improve Ramda’s currying and placeholder support—demonstrating attention to developer ergonomics. Known for pragmatic problem solving and a design-minded background from early brand and web roles, he blends product-focused engineering with a knack for polishing developer and user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
typesc10
ram10
typescript10
ramdajs10
currying10
type-definition10
type-system10
typescript-types10
functional-programming10
typescripts10
javascript9
macos6
database6
angular6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Drew primarily contributed to the type definitions for the Ramda library, specifically focusing on adding placeholder signatures to existing functions. Their work involved updating definitions to include placeholder arguments, adding new tests, and making adjustments to existing definitions. This included adding tests for `concat`, `contains`, and `divide`, ensuring Ramda's functions support the placeholder `R.__` for currying.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
drewwyatt/git-tidy
Mar 2019 - Aug 2021
Tidy up stale git branches.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 56 commits in 2 years 5 months
command-line-toolbranchescli-apprustcommand-line-interface
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