Griffin Dunn
Software Engineering Manager at Datadog
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGriffin Dunn is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience, currently leading teams at Datadog after progressing from senior and staff engineering roles within the company. He blends hands-on expertise in distributed systems and large-scale architecture with a passion for embedded systems and developer experience improvements. Based in Somerville, MA, Griffin has a strong academic foundation from RIT and early mentorship experience as a tutor and lab instructor, which informs his collaborative, coaching-oriented management style. Notably, his GitHub focus on "dist systems" reflects a deep interest in reliability and scalability that drives both technical decisions and operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (75)
scheduling10
foundationdb10
mesos10
transactional10
charts10
helm10
database10
kubernetes10
key-value-store10
go10
embeddable10
distributed-database10
docker10
docker-image10
acid9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/rules_oci
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
blazing fast Bazel rules for building OCI Images
Contributions:2 reviews, 42 commits, 15 PRs in 9 months
blazingbazelstarlarkorasblazing-fast
griffin/brackets
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 51 commits, 43 pushes in 5 months
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