Mehedi Bakht
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMehedi Bakht is a Senior Software Engineer based in Urbana, Illinois with seven years of professional experience and a Ph.D. background from the University of Illinois. He has built production-grade networking and telemetry features at Datadog, contributing notably to the high-profile DataDog/datadog-agent repo by enhancing system-probe DNS statistics, packet-timestamped latency calculations, and UDP packet telemetry. His career spans research-driven roles at Facebook, Veriflow (acquired by VMware), and a brief VMware stint, reflecting deep expertise in networking, observability, and backend systems. Known for turning low-level packet insights into reliable telemetry, he blends academic rigor with practical engineering to improve monitoring at scale.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at University Of Illinois at UrbanaB.SC., B.SC. at Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyHSC, HSC at Mirzapur Cadet College
Github Skills (6)
go10
dns10
telemetry10
networking10
metric9
observability9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Engineer
Back-end EngineerContributions:102 reviews, 39 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Mehedi primarily contributed to the system-probe component of the Datadog agent, enhancing its functionality. Their work involved implementing DNS stats tracking, including successes, errors, and queries, and using packet capture timestamps for DNS latency calculations. They also addressed issues related to UDP packets with missing addresses and added telemetry for missed UDP packets. Furthermore, the user fixed warnings and enabled DNS stats collection by default.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
DataDog/agent-payload
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
Payload format description for communication between the agent and the Datadog backend
Contributions:7 releases, 46 reviews, 44 commits in 1 year 7 months
agentpayloadcommunicationbackendmonitoring
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