Hannah Kim
Software Engineer at Datadog
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHannah Kim is a software engineer with seven years of experience, currently building observability tooling at Datadog after progressing from an intern to a full-time engineer. Her background spans backend systems and developer tooling—improving the Datadog Agent and Go Tracer—and includes prior internships at Meta/Facebook where she built debugging plugins for mobile frameworks. An MIT computer science graduate, she pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on research experience, having applied topological data analysis and machine learning to climate and wildfire prediction at Johns Hopkins APL. Beyond production code, she has a history of teaching and community leadership—directing a student hackathon, leading programming workshops, and coaching competitive math—which reflects strong communication and mentorship skills. Notably, she has navigated both research publications and product-focused engineering, giving her a rare blend of analytical depth and pragmatic shipping experience.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Marriotts Ridge High School
Github Skills (28)
monitoring10
hugo10
observability10
stackdriver10
distributed-tracing10
opentracing10
apm10
pmm10
go10
agent10
apm-agent10
profiling10
golang10
opentelemetry10
datadog10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hannahkm/FBUFinalApp
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:6 reviews, 62 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 month
hannahkm/hannahkm.github.io
Aug 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
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