Jesse Gumz
Engineering Manager I at Datadog
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Gumz is an engineering manager and former senior backend engineer with a decade of experience building scalable cloud-native systems at Datadog and JW Player, now leading teams from Portland, Oregon. He combines hands-on tracing and backend expertise—contributing to Datadog’s widely used datadog-agent trace agent—with a track record of designing distributed ML orchestration and media backend services in Python. Comfortable across the stack, Jesse has driven load-based scaling policies, testing standards, and operational improvements that bridge research models and production services. His background in economics and data analysis informs a metric-driven management style and an emphasis on measurable system impact.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics and Hispanic Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics and Hispanic Studies at The College of William and MaryMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at New York UniversityEconomics, Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
distributed-tracing10
observability10
go10
apm-agent10
trace10
tracer10
metric10
testing9
opentelemetry-go8
opentelemetry8
docker4
kubernetes4
dockers4
kubernetes-pods4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:103 reviews, 7 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the Datadog Agent, specifically focusing on the trace agent. Their commits involved adding support for measured spans in trace stats calculations, incorporating new aggregators (like "version"), and calculating sublayer trace metrics. The contributions involved modifications to core tracing functionality, including tests and configuration.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
jdgumz/vim-config
Jun 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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