Michael Tarkington
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Tarkington is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with a decade of experience bridging product, support, and civic technology. He led and scaled specialized technical teams at Datadog—owning escalations and APM expertise across multiple languages and enterprise customers—while earlier founding Digital Citizen, a civic-engagement platform aimed at modernizing political participation. Comfortable troubleshooting everything from Python and Go services to frontend JavaScript and YAML configurations, he pairs hands-on technical aptitude with proven people management and incident coordination skills. His background in political science and journalism informs a unique blend of analytical rigor and user-focused product thinking. Michael has augmented formal study with immersive coding bootcamp and self-directed web development certs, reflecting a persistent builder’s mindset. Based in San Francisco, he brings an unusual mix of civic mission, customer empathy, and operational discipline to complex technical programs.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Political Science, Bachelor's Degree Political Science at University of California, BerkeleyFull Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampWeb Development, Web Development at Codecademy2 High Honors Associates Degrees Political Science, 2 High Honors Associates Degrees Political Science at City College of San Francisco
English, Russian, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
debugging10
hugo10
vote10
profiling10
datadog10
google-play10
itunes9
apm9
security9
python9
documentation9
redux8
twitter8
observability8
cordova8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MikeTarkington/flare_spotter
Nov 2018 - May 2019
A project for programmatic analysis of Datadog agent flares for debugging and configuration.
Contributions:49 commits, 14 PRs, 33 pushes in 5 months
datadog-agentagentprogrammaticdebuggingdatadog
DigiCiti/DigitalCitizen
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:56 PRs, 70 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 1 month
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