Kent Shultz
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Shultz is an SRE-turned-technical writer and engineer with 12 years of experience bridging production reliability and developer-facing content from Berkeley, CA. He has worked across CloudFlare, Datadog, Uber, and Gremlin, blending hands-on reliability engineering and DevOps with clear, practical writing about Chaos Engineering and observability. Kent has contributed code and tests to widely used tooling such as Datadog integrations, demonstrating an ability to move between backend QA work and documentation. His background includes both high-stakes operational roles (SPAWAR intrusion detection and Rackspace automation) and compassionate patient-facing work in mental health, giving him a rare mix of technical rigor and human-centered communication.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Tulsa
Github Skills (5)
python10
integrations10
testing10
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-core
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:150 commits, 115 PRs, 184 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kent primarily focused on adding a service check for the `twemproxy` integration, implementing a `can_connect` check to verify its functionality. This involved modifying Python code in the `check.py` and `test_twemproxy.py` files to include the service check and associated tests. Additionally, the user contributed to test suites within the `kubernetes` and `tcp_check` integrations by merging changes and updating test configurations to reflect deprecation.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
procore/integrations-core
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Core integrations of the datadog agent
Contributions:104 commits in 3 months
golangdatadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoring
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