Kyle C
Senior Software Engineer at Bitwarden
United States
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Top SchoolKyle C is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of systems-level experience building high-performance, production software in Rust and C++. He has led large refactors and shipped core components for enterprise storage at HPE, then transitioned to observability at Datadog contributing to both the open-source Vector project and Datadog’s Observability Pipelines worker. His open-source work includes meaningful enhancements to popular tools like bat and Vector—improving CLI ergonomics, timestamp handling, sinks, and test infrastructure—demonstrating attention to developer UX and reliability. Comfortable across embedded systems, backend services, and CI/release engineering, he pairs hands-on coding with team leadership and mentoring. Based in the United States, Kyle brings a pragmatic systems-thinking approach shaped by storage protocols, observability pipelines, and real-world hardware-software integration.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaPsychology Philosophy, Psychology Philosophy at Boise State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology at Seattle University
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Github Skills (21)
git10
testing10
command-line-interface10
command-line10
datadog10
rust10
cli10
back-end-development9
toolbox9
tooling9
metric9
toolz9
syntax-highlighting9
file-handling8
timestamp8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vectordotdev/vector
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
A high-performance observability data pipeline.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2351 reviews, 175 commits, 681 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the backend functionality, focusing on enhancing the Splunk HEC logs sink with timestamp handling, including options to defer to Splunk for timestamp setting or to use a custom timestamp field. The user also worked on improvements to the Datadog Agent source and the Datadog metrics sink, improving internal component metric reporting, and handled edge cases related to metric intervals. Furthermore, the user was involved in refining the internal test framework for a variety of different components.
stream-processingeventspipelinerustdata-observability
sharkdp/bat
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
A cat(1) clone with wings.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 27 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on implementing and enhancing the command-line interface of the `bat` utility. Their contributions include adding the `--file-name` option for improved file display, refactoring cache directory handling with environment variables, and implementing tests for the new functionality. The user also modified the printer and configuration logic, expanding the features and improving the tool's usability, particularly when handling input from STDIN and multiple files.
rustwingsterminalcommand-linesyntax-highlighting
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