Michael Richey
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Richey is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with nine years of recent experience and a 20+ year career history building reliable server-side systems, embedded solutions, and mobile applications. Currently at Datadog, he excels at solving difficult architecture and performance problems, having designed scalable microservices, data pipelines, and distributed solutions in Python, Go, and cloud-native AWS environments. He’s language-agnostic and a strong proponent of UNIX-like systems, with hands-on experience from Lambda and Kafka integrations to machine-vision OCR and DSP for embedded controllers. Michael combines deep practical engineering—profiling bottlenecks, parallelizing pipelines, and deploying outage-free services—with team leadership and mentorship from roles as technical director and manager. Based in Orlando, he brings a pragmatic curiosity for new technologies and a track record of turning complex requirements into stable, production-grade systems.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Kettering University
Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
richeymichael/remarkable-assistant
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Manage templates, splash screens, and settings on your reMarkable tablet
Contributions:49 commits, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 20 days
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richeymichael/2017STDIOGameJam
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 days
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