Kris Reeves
Unemployed at Stripe
Olympia, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorKris Reeves is a backend- and automation-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building reliable systems at companies like Stripe and leading engineering at Sigma Bold. He combines hands-on coding, systems administration knowledge, and a pragmatic approach to correctness—favoring robust, secure solutions while recognizing real-world constraints. Kris has a history of vulnerability hunting and responsible disclosure, from early IRC exploits to a UTF-8 decoding flaw in Node's native libraries, reflecting a strong security mindset. An active member of the Node community since v0.6, he contributes code and pull requests rather than just filing issues and champions open source practices. Based in Olympia, Washington, he runs his engineering with a detective’s curiosity: when something is wrong, he digs until it’s fixed.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
402reputation
333kreached
6answers
4questions
Github Skills (83)
fault-tolerant10
fault10
monitoring9
pipeline9
daemontools9
stripe9
sensor8
python8
datadog8
prometheus8
agent8
observability8
ruby-client7
cli-tools7
devops7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stripe-archive/datadog-cli-tools
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
golangcli-toolsdatadogcli
stripe-archive/datadog-checks
Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
Checks for the Datadog Agent that Stripe finds useful.
Contributions:30 commits, 29 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 10 months
stripedatadog-agentagentchecksdatadog
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