Ignacio Molina
Software Engineer at Datadog
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolIgnacio Molina is a versatile software engineer with over five years of recent experience and a two-decade career spanning cybersecurity, cloud and simulation systems. Currently at Datadog, he focuses on .NET and C++ tracing and security features, contributing to high-profile open-source work such as instrumentation and IAST improvements in the Datadog .NET APM client. His background includes security engineering at Hdiv, cloud HR solutions and scrum leadership at Visma, and earlier technical management and real-time simulation development in C++ at Indra. Comfortable across Windows and Linux ecosystems, he pairs low-level systems expertise with practical product delivery and release coordination. Unusually, his career blends AI/R&D leadership from retail R&D with hands-on security instrumentation—making him adept at turning research ideas into production-grade, auditable tooling.
5 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor degree, Bachelor in computer science, Bachelor degree, Bachelor in computer science at Universidad Autónoma de MadridMaster's degree, Teacher Training (Specialization in Technology), Master's degree, Teacher Training (Specialization in Technology) at Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio
Github Skills (10)
testing10
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
trace10
tracer10
apm10
dotnet-core10
security10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-dotnet
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
.NET Client Library for Datadog APM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:729 reviews, 196 commits, 335 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ignacio primarily focused on instrumenting and testing the .NET client library for Datadog APM. Their contributions included adding instrumentation for the `Process.Start` method and integrating tests to verify the tracer's functionality under various agent conditions, including error scenarios. They also made changes to the IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing) module, implementing classes for detecting and reporting weak cipher algorithms and other vulnerabilities. These changes involved modifications to both the core tracing and security components of the library.
net-librarydotnetprofilingapmtracing
hdiv/insecure-bank-net
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
An insecure example application (.NET)
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
dotnetcsharpdotnet-core
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