James Jackson
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Melrose, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Jackson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melrose, Massachusetts with a decade-plus of experience building production software across embedded, robotics, and observability domains. He progressed through engineering and principal roles at iRobot from 2015 to 2024, then joined Datadog to focus on large-scale monitoring and platform reliability. With a Masters in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire and early research experience there, he brings both academic rigor and hands-on systems engineering. Colleagues know him for translating complex hardware-software interactions into maintainable, scalable code and for mentoring engineers as projects grow. His background spans firmware-adjacent work at NetApp and robotics at iRobot, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems insight and cloud-native production experience.
1 year of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (7)
datadog10
agent10
integrations10
documentation9
hugo9
monitoring9
dd9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
DataDog/integrations-extras
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 1 push in 5 months
datadog-agentintegrationsagentdatadog
DataDog/integrations-core
Aug 2024 - Nov 2024
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
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