Nik Johnson
Engineering Manager at Datadog
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNik Johnson is an Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience building resilient infrastructure and high-performing teams, currently leading engineering at Datadog from Denver. He has a strong background at Twitter across platform, provisioning, hardware, and SRE roles where he designed unified API platforms, automated provisioning and imaging systems that reduced provisioning times from hours to minutes, and introduced rollback and chargeback features to improve reliability and cost-awareness. Nik combines hands-on systems and hardware experience—modifying OpenBMC and automating hardware validation—with a track record of shipping automation that turns multi-day manual processes into seconds. He leans into mentorship and organizational design, reshaping team structures and fostering engineering velocity while keeping operational excellence front and center. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic leader who prioritizes building the team as the core product.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (55)
windows10
linux10
voip10
react-component10
latency10
audio10
chat10
voice10
server10
low-latency9
cross-platform9
cmake9
python-client9
macos9
autosuggest8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nik-johnson-net/prometheus-smarthome
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
nik-johnson-net/streamdeck-hll-computer
Aug 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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