Edward Dale
Engineering Team Lead at Datadog
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Dale is an Engineering Team Lead with 18 years of experience, currently leading Data Reliability Engineering at Datadog from Bavaria, Germany. He combines deep operational and reliability expertise with hands-on engineering, guiding teams to build observable, resilient systems at scale. His background includes substantial mobile development—contributing configuration and sharing improvements to the popular ShareKit iOS library—illustrating a long-standing habit of shipping practical open-source fixes. Edward holds advanced technical degrees (MS and PhD) and draws on academic rigor to tackle complex production problems. Known for replacing brittle, compile-time configurations with delegate-based, flexible designs, he favors solutions that improve maintainability and developer experience. He pairs mentorship and technical leadership to drive reliable delivery across cloud-native environments.
18 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Rochester Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
German, English
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Github Skills (36)
objective-c10
cron10
ios10
mobile-development10
python10
mysql10
configuration-management10
shareware10
php10
background-process9
apache9
post9
zend-framework9
networking9
java9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ShareKit/ShareKit
Oct 2010 - Feb 2013
Drop in sharing features for all iPhone and iPad apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:49 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily worked on the configuration and sharing aspects of the ShareKit library for iOS. They implemented a delegate-based configuration system, replacing the use of defines with SHKCONFIG for improved flexibility. Their changes involved modifying and creating configuration delegate files, ensuring the application can properly configure sharing settings. The user also addressed several issues, including Delicious sharing and Facebook and Google Reader integration.
ipaddrop-iniphonereact-nativesharing
scompt/ScreenshotDemo
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 1 push in 1 month
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