Kevin Guo
Software Engineer at Datadog
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Guo is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable backend systems, currently focused on API reliability at Datadog after multi-year MySQL infrastructure work at Facebook. He brings a strong systems and data-oriented mindset—evident from production engineering on large-scale MySQL fleets and earlier embedded and robotics prototyping roles. Comfortable across infrastructure, DevOps, and low-level system design, Kevin pairs hands-on coding (Python, CI/CD pipelines) with operational rigor for high-availability services. He studied computer engineering at UIUC and furthered CS studies at KTH, blending rigorous hardware-level understanding with cloud-scale software experience. Notably, his career spans both hard-real-time embedded projects and massive distributed databases, a combination that informs pragmatic, reliable system design.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Westview High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (20)
hugo9
datadog9
documentation8
python-client8
java-client8
api7
openapi7
python6
golang5
ruby5
java5
typescript5
atom-editor4
openapi-generator4
openai3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KevinTheGuo/KevinTheGuo.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
KevinTheGuo/Quadcoptery-Stuff
Nov 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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