Kaleb Elwert
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaleb Elwert is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently working on Datadog’s Runtime Configuration team. He has a strong track record in high-scale services and systems-level work—from co-authoring a custom Go SSH service at Atlassian that handled hundreds of millions of sessions to improving containerized backends at The Pokémon Company International. His open-source contributions span Go libraries and tooling (notably fixes and test improvements to gliderlabs/ssh and go-colorful) and embedded firmware for keyboards, reflecting comfort across backend, embedded, and developer-experience domains. Kaleb combines pragmatic engineering with a QA mindset, often improving testability and fixing subtle race conditions. Based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, he pairs production-grade coding with a practical attention to system reliability and migration strategy.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering at Michigan Technological University
Github Skills (39)
application-framework10
c-language10
qmk-firmware10
testing10
firmware10
app-framework10
qmk10
c1110
c1710
go10
sys10
web-framework10
embedded10
shell10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
gliderlabs/ssh
Feb 2017 - Aug 2022
Easy SSH servers in Golang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 2 reviews, 41 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kaleb primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `gliderlabs/ssh` repository, a Go-based SSH server. Their commits focused on fixing bugs, such as ensuring session exit functionality and addressing race conditions, and improving the server's capabilities, including adding a server version option and subsystem support. The user also updated the code to utilize the `gossh` library's parsing features and refactored existing code for testability.
golanggolang-packagesshssh-server
sorin-ionescu/prezto
Mar 2016 - Mar 2020
The configuration framework for Zsh
Role in this project:Software Engineer (Zsh Configuration)
Software Engineer (Zsh Configuration)Contributions:17 reviews, 103 commits, 294 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kaleb primarily contributed to the configuration framework for Zsh, focusing on enhancing the Prezto framework. Their work included adding features to modules like python and utility, fixing bugs, and optimizing performance. Key changes involved allowing users to configure the ZPREZTODIR variable, improving completion, and fixing issues related to environment handling and code syntax. The user also added new aliases and updated existing ones, streamlining common tasks within the Zsh environment.
zshpreztozsh-plugin-managerzsh-configurationframework
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