Peter Griggs
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Griggs is a Senior Software Engineer at Datadog with a decade of experience building production-grade systems, currently focused on the Profiler team in New York. He holds an MEng and BS in Computer Science from MIT, where he researched computer systems at CSAIL before moving into industry roles and internships at Apple, Megagon Labs, and Nasdaq. At Datadog he progressed from Software Engineer I to Senior Engineer, bringing deep systems thinking to performance tooling and observability. His background spans research and applied engineering, giving him fluency in both prototyping novel ideas and hardening them for large-scale deployment. Colleagues know him for blending academic rigor with pragmatic shipping discipline, often surfacing low-level insights that improve runtime efficiency. Outside work he has a long history of hands-on projects dating back to founding a small app company, showing sustained curiosity about building software end-to-end.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The Bishop's SchoolMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Systems, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (100)
faraday10
python10
distributed-tracing10
lda10
fasttext10
security10
profiling10
ruby-client10
opentelemetry10
glove10
monitoring10
word2vec10
corpus10
apm-agent10
golang10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
megagonlabs/leam
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Source code and demo for Leam
Contributions:143 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
leam
peterg17/ctci
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
cracking the coding interviews problems code and test cases
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
casescppleetcodeproblemstest-cases
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