Kevin Lai
Senior Security Engineer at Datadog
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Lai is a Senior Security Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of software development experience and over four years focused on cybersecurity. He builds practical, empathetic security programs—automating S-SDLC processes, teaching secure practices, and integrating compliance reviews—while maintaining a hands-on engineering mindset. Kevin progressed from software and QA roles into appsec and infosec at Mavenlink and Datadog, blending development fluency with security leadership. A Stanford-educated economist who moonlights as a digital artist, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective that helps translate technical risk into actionable, people-centered solutions.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics, BA, Economics at Stanford University
taiwanese hokkien, Chinese, French, Japanese
Github Skills (27)
monitoring10
observability10
stackdriver10
distributed-tracing10
integrations10
pmm10
go10
agent10
apm-agent10
profiling10
golang10
datadog10
opentelemetry10
logging10
otel10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/qlpack
Feb 2022 - Jan 2024
Code Scanning QL Packs for public Datadog GitHub repositories
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 year 11 months
github-repositoriesrepositoriescode-scanningpacksscanning
urnfdog/datadog-agent
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Datadog Agent
Contributions:1 PR, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
golangdatadog-agentagentddmonitoring
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