Summary
Kelly Yu is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer-facing integrations, currently contributing to Collaboration Integrations at Datadog in NYC. They have a strong track record at Attentive leading campaigns, reporting, and event-driven projects—taking POCs to production and guiding cross-team best practices. Past roles at Yext and LinkedIn reinforced full-stack and platform expertise, from SDK front-ends to ingestion frameworks and API doc pipelines. Kelly blends hands-on execution with mentorship and design of resilient pipelines and domain models, especially around campaign scheduling, webhook frameworks, and reporting aggregation. Outside of work they apply the same maker mindset to woodworking, 3D printing, and building furniture from scratch—an indicator of their attention to detail and iterative problem-solving.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma General Education, High School Diploma General Education at Rochester High School
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Cornell University