Kenny House is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading teams at Datadog and earlier startups, specializing in scalable, production-grade systems. He progressed from individual contributor roles to team lead and now senior engineer at Datadog, bringing deep operational experience in observability and streaming systems informed by his prior role as Lead Streaming Engineer at Satchel Health. Based in Augusta, Georgia, Kenny combines hands-on engineering with people leadership, mentoring engineers while driving cross-functional delivery. His background spans healthcare telemedicine streaming and product-focused startups, giving him a pragmatic approach to reliability and real-time data challenges. Colleagues describe him as someone who surfaces technical debt early and builds measurable improvements into team workflows.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Belmont University
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.