Jānis Kiršteins
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolJānis Kiršteins is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience in security-focused software and product leadership, currently leading teams at Datadog from Marseille. He co-founded and ran Notakey, a startup that implemented cryptographic digital-signature-based access controls and tamper-proof audit logs, and remains on its board, bringing founder-level product and operational experience to engineering management. His early career maintained large PKI and e-signature systems across multiple languages and platforms, giving him deep practical expertise in applied cryptography, secure APIs, and legacy-modern integrations. At Sqreen and Datadog he transitioned from hands-on engineering to coaching and scaling teams that build observability and application security tooling. Colleagues know him for blending rigorous security engineering with pragmatic delivery — and for shipping auditable, policy-driven access controls that solve real enterprise problems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s, Computer Science, Bachelor’s, Computer Science at Latvijas UniversitateRiga State Gymnasium No.1
Latvian, English, Russian, French
Github Skills (150)
hugo10
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godot10
game-engine10
monogame10
debugging10
documentation10
open-source10
datadog10
tilemap10
ietf9
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opengl9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jkirsteins/Spectre.Client
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
SaltEdge Spectre API Client
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 months
api-clientapipython
jkirsteins/hashlink-arm
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:260 commits, 49 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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