Summary
Harmon Herring is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York who specializes in securing the software supply chain at Datadog. In three years at Datadog he progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, focusing on hardening the SDLC and operationalizing security across development pipelines. His background includes hands-on incident management, AWS infrastructure for pentesting, and building network analytics proof-of-concepts with Flask, Scala, Elasticsearch, and Kubernetes. Earlier roles span VoIP integrations and full‑stack web development, giving him a pragmatic full‑stack perspective on security and reliability. Harmon combines applied security experience with production engineering chops, often translating vulnerability findings into actionable remediation and business continuity plans. He holds a degree in Computing Security from RIT and brings a builder’s mindset to protecting large-scale software ecosystems.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computing Security, Bachelors Computing Security at Rochester Institute of Technology