Nicholas Muesch
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Muesch is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and architecting high-performance backend systems, currently at Datadog in the NYC area. He thrives in the architecture phase—designing systems from requirements to implementation—and has driven dramatic performance improvements such as reducing server response times from 400ms to 5ms in a web-service-to-database project. At Datadog he has moved from support into senior engineering roles, contributing across agent internals, integrations, Terraform provider work, and Python/Go tooling that improve observability and deployment pipelines. His open-source contributions show a focus on portability, testing, and build reliability (notably porting integrations to Python 3 and hardening documentation build pipelines). He pairs a pragmatic, performance-first mindset with broad DevOps and full-stack fluency, and often prefers designing technology-agnostic architectures that squeeze peak performance from systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
English
Github Skills (48)
monitoring10
apim10
api-rest10
javascript10
docker10
integrate10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
integrations10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/integrations-extras
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:217 reviews, 60 commits, 144 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas's commits focus on porting existing integrations to Python 3, wheel packaging, and refactoring tests. Their work involved modifying Python code, updating setup files, and adapting testing frameworks. These changes included porting existing checks, such as UPS and Stardog, and refactoring the storm integration to support Python 3, which suggests a focus on improving the codebase compatibility and maintainability.
datadog
DataDog/integrations-core
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:137 reviews, 714 commits, 694 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas's contributions primarily involve code modifications within the `kubernetes` and `mongo` directories, suggesting a focus on integrations and monitoring. They updated existing checks, adding support for newer versions of MongoDB, including oplog metrics. Further work included the addition and modification of service checks as well as the updating of existing network checks.
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