Nayeem Kamal
Software Engineer II at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNayeem Kamal is a Software Engineer II at Datadog in New York with nine years of industry experience building robust backend systems in Python, Java, and C++. He progressed from internships and platform engineering roles at Prudential and NJIT to production-focused engineering at Datadog, where he’s worked on the widely used dd-trace-java APM client. His contributions emphasize reliability and security—adding targeted exception handling and refactoring to harden agent discovery and fleet services. Comfortable across object-oriented languages and infrastructure concerns, he blends pragmatic code ownership with a focus on maintainability. Colleagues describe him as a steady problem-solver who turns operational pain points into durable fixes.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
1reputation
99reached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (9)
distributed-tracing10
javas10
trace10
tracer10
java10
apm10
java-agent9
datadog9
openliberty6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-java
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Datadog APM client for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:136 reviews, 63 commits, 113 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nayeem primarily contributed to the Datadog APM client for Java, focusing on improving the robustness and security of the client. Their work involved adding exception handling to address vulnerabilities related to HTTP clients, specifically in the `DDAgentFeaturesDiscovery` and `FleetServiceImpl` classes. They also refactored code by removing unnecessary try/catch blocks and formatting changes, ensuring the code's maintainability.
apm-clientapmbytebuddydatadoghqtracing
nayeem-kamal/APCS-Circles
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.