Kate Yoak
Partner Solutions Architect at Datadog
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolKate Yoak is a Partner Solutions Architect with 11+ years of experience bringing product-focused engineering and digital transformation to startups and global brands from Los Angeles. A former founder and CEO of Lean Street and early tech leader at companies like Surf Air and Idealab, she blends hands-on development (NodeJS, Python, Go, Perl) with product strategy, agile teams, and rapid prototyping. At Datadog she advises channel and alliance partners on observability, security, and cloud cost architectures, translating complex feature sets into compelling enablement and go-to-market plans. Her career spans founding, scaling, and exiting products across distributed teams in Poland, Thailand and the U.S., and she has a knack for hiring and mentoring remote engineers to own outcomes. Kate views digital transformation as a marriage of culture and technology and is known for the “perfect demo” — turning ambiguous challenges into clear, revenue-driving solutions. A Caltech-trained computer scientist and economist, she pairs technical depth with commercial instincts and an appetite for high-change environments.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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27answers
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Github Skills (51)
hugo10
datadog10
documentation10
monitoring9
integrations9
vscode-plugin9
profiling9
agent9
logging9
dd8
otel8
pmm8
sdk8
distributed-tracing8
stackdriver8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TRANZMT-IT/safewrd_web2
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
React website for Safewrd.app
Contributions:12 PRs, 27 pushes in 10 days
reactreact-website
KateYoak/datadog-cpu-gpu
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year
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