Minyi Zhu
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMinyi Zhu is a software engineer with six years of industry experience and a strong five-year background in large scientific, object-oriented C++ projects. He brings deep expertise in C++/C, STL/Boost, design patterns, multi-threading, numerical analysis and Python, honed across roles at Datadog, Meta, and Bloomberg. At Datadog he focuses on container integrations and agent development, while at Meta he worked on ads infrastructure and product ranking—combining low-level systems skills with product-facing impact. His earlier work in portfolio and risk analytics at Bloomberg and a PhD in Physics underscore an analytical approach to software design and performance optimization. Based in New York, he blends research-grade rigor with production engineering, often tackling algorithmic and concurrency challenges that sit at the intersection of systems and numerical computing.
5 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor, Physics, Bachelor, Physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (27)
monitoring10
observability10
stackdriver10
charts10
distributed-tracing10
integrations10
pmm10
go10
agent10
apm-agent10
profiling10
golang10
opentelemetry10
datadog10
dd10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Contributions:148 reviews, 93 PRs, 514 pushes in 1 year 10 months
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
zhuminyi/Active-Portfolio-Management-Notes
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
railsnotesportfolio-managementruby
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