Kyle Ames
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Barboursville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Ames is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable back-end systems, currently focused on Datadog's Remote Configuration platform. He prefers Go and Rust and has a strong background in C, having led architecture and packet-processing efforts at FireEye and driven security- and reliability-focused features at Datadog. At Datadog he significantly improved the Agent's remote config system—adding exponential backoff, RFC-aligned client refactors, and backend-driven refresh and expiration controls—demonstrating attention to robustness in distributed systems. Kyle combines systems-level engineering with pragmatic API design, having rewritten and hardened critical RESTful services and packet pipelines across multiple roles. He holds an MS in Computer Science from James Madison University and brings a knack for turning complex reliability and security requirements into maintainable, production-grade code.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at James Madison University
Github Skills (9)
go10
tuf10
back-end-development10
grpc10
observability9
api8
distributed-tracing8
apidoc8
go-testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:157 reviews, 41 commits, 75 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed significantly to the Datadog Agent's remote configuration management system. Their work focused on enhancing the resilience and functionality of the remote config service. They implemented exponential backoff for the HTTP client, improved TUF version state handling, addressed request validation issues, and refactored the agent client to align with an RFC-compliant design. Furthermore, the user added support for backend-driven refresh interval overrides and config expiration, expanding the remote config feature set.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
ameske/nfl-pickem-legacy
Oct 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 163 commits, 115 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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