Kevin Coffey
Staff Engineer at Datadog
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Coffey is a Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, user-focused software and identity/authentication systems at Datadog. He progressed from open-source system developer to senior and now staff engineer, bringing deep institutional knowledge of observability and auth across large-scale production environments. Kevin pairs backend systems thinking with front-end polish—evidenced by contributions to the popular Destiny Item Manager project where he fixed subtle rounding bugs and improved loadout and vault behaviors. He has also led engineering teams in finance and defense sectors, blending rigorous security and correctness with pragmatic delivery. Based in the United States and grounded in technical leadership, he emphasizes measurable improvements and developer-friendly solutions.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
des9
dsdt9
dex9
dse9
angular7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DestinyItemManager/DIM
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Destiny Item Manager
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the user interface and logic of the Destiny Item Manager application. They addressed rounding errors in light level calculations, ensuring more accurate results. Additionally, the user made improvements to the loadout feature by preventing unintended modifications and refined the display of account-wide items. They also linked specific versions in the changelog and made adjustments to the vault behavior.
reactbungieitemdestinytypescript
DataDog/marshmallow-jsonapi
May 2020 - May 2022
JSON API 1.0 (https://jsonapi.org/) formatting with marshmallow
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years
apijsonapihateoasjson-schemajson-api
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