Johann Botha
Engineering Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohann Botha is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and leading teams across consumer and B2B web and mobile products, currently managing engineering at Datadog in New York. He scaled and modernized architectures at CoinTracker—introducing React, GraphQL, Astro, Cloudflare edge, and Auth0—while leading zero-to-one enterprise accounting product development and a design system with Chromatic/Storybook regression tests. Johann has a background at Google and startups like Coinsetter and Electronifie, combining large-scale engineering discipline with hands-on product delivery. He’s known for improving developer velocity and business metrics (notably shifting consumer retention via an annual subscription strategy) and for bridging technical architecture with user-focused outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at The George Washington University
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Github Skills (69)
hugo10
distributed-tracing10
integrations10
security10
profiling10
debugging10
bytebuddy10
java10
apm10
documentation10
datadog10
python9
observability9
opentracing9
nodejs9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
johannbotha/avalon
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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johannbotha/docker-webserver
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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