Guy King
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGuy King is a Senior Software Engineer with 16+ years of experience building and maintaining robust systems across domains from engineering to e‑commerce, currently contributing at Datadog. He is polyglot and platform‑agnostic—comfortable in languages from Java and C++ to Kotlin and Rust, and on environments ranging from Unix variants and Windows to OpenStack, Kubernetes and Heroku. Guy excels at quickly understanding and refactoring legacy code, diagnosing deep issues with heap dumps and debuggers, and applying pragmatic outside‑in TDD and CI practices to ship reliable software. He has designed and extended distributed test infrastructure (notably leading major additions and an open‑source refactor for DataStax’s fallout project) and automated complex build and deployment pipelines. A collaborative remote and co‑located team player, he mentors peers, runs tech talks and promotes knowledge sharing while also delivering solo projects end‑to‑end. Based in Inverness, Scotland, he pairs algorithmic pragmatism with an engineer’s attention to operational detail—often surfacing small tooling improvements that yield outsized productivity gains.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Computer Science, BSc Hons, Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh
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Github Skills (142)
pager10
charts10
cassandra10
java10
system-testing10
helm9
database9
rust9
shell9
testing9
python9
dse9
highlighting9
user-friendly9
travis-ci9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
guyboltonking/redmine-to-omnifocus
Nov 2009 - Feb 2013
Contributions:19 commits in 3 years 4 months
pythonexportpython-scriptredmineomnifocus
guyboltonking/bdd-with-boost-test
Apr 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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