Hardy Jones
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolHardy Jones is a Senior Software Engineer in Sacramento with 14 years of experience building resilient, developer-focused systems across backend, frontend, and tooling. Currently at Datadog, he has driven automation for release processes, designed sandboxed WebWorker architectures, and led efforts to reduce flaky tests across polyglot CI pipelines. His background includes engineering leadership and hands-on work introducing nix, feature flags, SLOs, and distributed tracing to speed iteration and improve reliability. A long-time open-source contributor, Hardy has deep involvement in the PureScript compiler and package-sets as well as tooling and parser improvements for package managers, reflecting a taste for language-level and infrastructure challenges. He also has a track record of mentoring and growing teams, and an unusual blend of early systems/mechanic roles and formal CS training that fuels a practical, systems-minded approach to complex problems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, DavisSacramento City CollegeAmerican River CollegeCosumnes River College
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Github Skills (30)
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unit-testing10
dependency-management10
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package-management10
dependency-analysis10
testing10
purescript10
bash10
package-manager-tool10
compiler-design10
archlinux10
functional-programming10
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rust10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
wbond/package_control_channel
Jan 2013 - Jun 2016
Default channel file for Package Control. Follow the directions at:
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:502 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Hardy's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the test suite for the `package_control_channel` repository. The commits involve modifying and adding tests within the `tests/test.py` file. The user has made changes to existing tests, and contributed new tests to validate the JSON structure, package order and package details of the repository. These contributions appear aimed at improving the reliability and maintainability of the project's data.
followpackage-controldirections
purescript/purescript
Feb 2014 - May 2020
A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 commits, 17 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Hardy primarily contributed to the development of the `purescript/purescript` repository by implementing and refining features within the PureScript language and its associated tools. Their work involved compiling code, fixing issues related to array sorting, and enhancing the interaction with the PSCI (PureScript Compiler Interactive) tool. The contributions centered on compiler internals and improving the interactive development experience for PureScript.
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