Oskar Jung
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOskar Jung is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building high-performance, data-intensive systems. He has progressed from real-time bidding engines and large Hadoop/HBase clusters to backend engineering at Datadog, where he contributed observability and remote configuration improvements to the widely used datadog-agent. Comfortable across Java/Scala, distributed systems, streaming (Kafka, Flink), and production JVM tuning, he combines deep performance optimization skills with reliable operational experience. Oskar has led and mentored small engineering teams, participated in hiring, and designed low-latency platforms that processed tens of thousands of events per second. He brings a pragmatic focus on scalability and maintainability, with hands-on experience ingesting terabytes per day and improving agent-side telemetry. Colleagues would describe him as a detail-oriented engineer who thrives on squeezing latency and reliability gains out of complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Computer Science at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
German, English
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Github Skills (16)
observability10
go10
api10
apidoc10
debug9
debugging9
instrumentation8
distributed-tracing8
apm8
monitoring7
go-modules7
hbase6
cloudera6
filter6
dockers5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 5 commits, 18 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Oskar primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Datadog Agent. Their work includes adding a debugger proxy endpoint, configuring API keys, and integrating container tags. The commits also involve modifications to the remote configuration management (RCM) system, focusing on incorporating runtime IDs and improving client tracking within the agent. These changes suggest a focus on observability and configuration management within the agent.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
ojung/migriere-es
Mar 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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