Kevin Cao
Engineering Manager at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Cao is an engineering manager based in New York with a decade-plus career advancing from hands-on engineering to leading product-focused teams at Datadog, Shopify, and Audible. He has built and scaled critical systems across payments (Shop Pay Installments), membership management, and distributed ledger proofs-of-concept, balancing product delivery with architectural rigor. Kevin has repeatedly grown and coached mid-sized teams (7–9 engineers) to own complex backend systems and integrations in high-throughput environments. His background spans enterprise architecture, cloud migrations, and mission-critical embedded software, giving him a rare combination of systems-level design experience and product delivery instincts. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who brings clarity to ambiguous technical challenges and thrives where reliability and business impact intersect.
2 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (16)
profiling9
logging9
hugo9
datadog9
pmm8
monitoring8
distributed-tracing8
documentation8
otel8
stackdriver8
apm-agent7
agent7
observability7
golang6
go6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
DataDog/documentation
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Contributions:1 review in 1 day
wikihugodatadogdocumentation-site
DataDog/datadog-agent
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Contributions:1 PR in 1 day
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
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