Jeffrey Lyman is an engineering manager and backend C++ engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance distributed systems that serve at scale. He progressed from hands-on senior engineering roles at Google to leadership at Datadog, combining deep technical expertise with a focus on code quality and healthy team culture. Jeffrey has a strong operational background—early work in CI/CD, Ansible, and managing Hadoop clusters informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and automation. A former college preceptor and building manager, he brings proven people-management and mentorship skills alongside technical leadership. Based in New York, he pairs rigorous academic foundations (BS Computer Science, 3.88 GPA) with a track record of shipping production systems for billions of users.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.88, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.88 at Macalester College
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