James Eichelbaum
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Eichelbaum is a Senior Software Engineer based in Vienna with a background spanning mechanical engineering and computer science and experience building large-scale, secure backend systems. He has progressed through engineering roles at Microsoft and Meta and now contributes to observability at Datadog, bringing practical expertise in .NET, AWS, and distributed processing from earlier roles handling billions of bank transactions. Comfortable across full-stack and systems work, James has repeatedly focused on scalable architectures, deployment automation, and security policies to productionize sensitive data flows. His career began in hardware-adjacent engineering and simulation contexts, which gives him a pragmatic appreciation for tolerances, performance and tooling that often informs his software designs. Though early in total years counted on LinkedIn, his trajectory reflects senior-level impact across major cloud and platform teams.
2 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BE(Hons) / BSc, Mechanical Engineering / Computer Science, BE(Hons) / BSc, Mechanical Engineering / Computer Science at The University of Auckland
Github Skills (5)
datadog10
monitoring10
dd10
agent10
integrations10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
james-eichelbaum/strawberry
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
A GraphQL library for Python that leverages type annotations 🍓
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
DataDog/integrations-extras
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Contributions:40 reviews, 22 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 9 months
datadog-agentintegrationsagentdatadog
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