Nicole Danuwidjaja
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicole Danuwidjaja is a software engineer based in NYC with a decade of hands-on experience building distributed systems, observability tooling, and realtime web applications. Currently at Datadog, she works on metrics distribution and experimental Rust storage projects and previously contributed to the high-profile dd-trace-go APM tracer to improve observability and reliability. Her background spans startups and enterprise—including founding-engineer roles, commerce and payments internships, and launching subscription trading dashboards—giving her both product intuition and backend depth. A Northeastern CS and Business dual major, she’s active in hackathons and open source and brings a creative side to engineering through interests in chess, music production, and video/logo design that often inform her approach to UX and system design.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at St. Francis Catholic High School, SacramentoBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Business Administration at Northeastern University
English, Indonesian, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
distributed-tracing10
monitoring10
debugging10
debug10
performance-monitor10
go10
performance-analysis10
opentracing10
tracer10
trace10
apm10
opentelemetry9
dockers5
docker5
kubernetes4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-go
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Datadog Go Library including APM tracing, profiling, and security monitoring.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicole primarily focused on improving the Datadog Go tracing library. Contributions include refactoring code to format trace IDs correctly, adding debug logs to tracer and integrations for improved observability, and fixing build issues. They also added and updated examples within different tracing integrations to show the use of service names. Additionally, this user implemented a fix for a flaky test.
golangapmtracingdatadog-apmopentracing
sandboxnu/huskyhabits-app
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:15 reviews, 40 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
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