Kyle Nusbaum
Software Engineer II at Datadog
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Nusbaum is a Software Engineer II with 13 years of experience building reliable backend systems and observability tooling from Champaign, Illinois. At Datadog he has contributed significant backend work to core projects like the Datadog Agent and dd-trace-go—improving tracing, SQL obfuscation, UDS-based container detection, Vault integration, and gRPC behavior—demonstrating deep systems and distributed-systems expertise. His background spans startup leadership as a co‑founder/CIO of a local delivery company and senior engineering roles at Granular and Yahoo, blending hands‑on coding with product and operational instincts. Comfortable navigating low-level platforms (AIX, Unix sockets) and high-level integrations, he brings pragmatic engineering that reduces operational pain while improving observability.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (30)
apache-storm10
apidoc10
distributed-tracing10
testing10
go10
api10
html10
dockers9
reporting-tools9
apm9
ui-design9
instrumentation9
docker9
meter9
embedded-reporting9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-go
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Datadog Go Library including APM tracing, profiling, and security monitoring.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 621 reviews, 240 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed to the integration with the Hashicorp Vault API, adding support for its use within the Datadog Go library. They implemented tests to ensure the correct operation of the Vault integration, covering mounting, writing, and reading secret data. The changes also involved modifications to support gRPC client and server functionality, specifically enhancing the differentiation of RPC method kinds. Furthermore, the user added options for the configuration of the http round tripper, service and environment parameters, and fixed issues that caused the miscounting of metrics in the tracer.
golangapmtracingdatadog-apmopentracing
DataDog/datadog-agent
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:438 reviews, 159 commits, 136 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the backend of the Datadog Agent, focusing on the trace agent component. Their work involved fixing bugs, optimizing code, and adding features related to SQL obfuscation, sublayer annotations, and the dogstatsd proxy. They made changes across multiple packages, including `pkg/trace/api`, `pkg/trace/obfuscate`, and `pkg/trace/config`. They also implemented features related to the AIX platform and UDS (Unix Domain Sockets) for container detection.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
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