Joni Salonen
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolJoni Salonen is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across finance, telecommunications, travel, and monitoring domains. He has driven architecture and senior engineering work at KAYAK and now contributes to Datadog’s observability platform, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems, backend services, and data stores. Early roles at Qindel involved designing multi-node solutions for clients like BBVA and Vodafone, reinforcing a pragmatic, testable object-oriented approach across Java, C, and scripting languages. A Master’s in Mathematics & Computer Science from the University of Oulu underpins his analytical problem-solving, and his career shows a consistent pattern of moving from hands-on engineering to shaping architecture and delivery at scale.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Mathematics & Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Mathematics & Computer Science at University of Oulu
English, Spanish, Finnish
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Github contributions (5)
joni/Instabook
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012
Contributions:25 commits in 1 day
Kisboe/seguimientos-be
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:5 PRs, 10 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
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